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...Brown Turner, copyreader on the Nashville Tennesseean, came an idea. Imps of Hell? It was a good name. With other local Legionaries he formed an organization for ''public worship, education and literary undertaking . . . separation of Church and State . . . temperance through the modification of the Volstead Act." He became secretary. Elected president was Lutheran Dr. Vogelpohl. 37, dentist, vice president of the Tennessee Dental Association, onetime commander of Nashville Pos; No. 5 of the American Legion. Headquarters were set up in the Bennie Dillon Building in Nashville. Welcoming male & female voters, the Imps set out to enroll...
...succeed Col. White, President Coolidge nominated for promotion Assistant Treasurer H. Theodore Tate, another Tennesseean. Figuratively speaking, Mr. Tate picked up the pen laid down by Col. White and upon a large white sheet of paper executed his own autograph in huge script. The signature was sent to the photo-engraver to be reduced and reproduced upon new Federal currency. Mr. Tate would not let people see how he had signed his name until after his confirmation by the Senate...
...natural associations of the catch phrase thinker with the word "melodrama" are the mustachio and hound dogs, the Tennesseean Montagues and Capulets, and the revolving saw that yearns for the hero's throat. But along Catfish Row, in the negro tenement district of Charleston, murder, knife behind back, walks hand in hand with music. The very name of melodrama was derived of this union. Modern usage of the word had its birth in the musically accompanied plays of the mauve decade, when "Hearts and Flowers," various funeral marches, and "After the Ball" were softly breathed by violins below the stage...
Last week Col. Luke Lea, onetime "baby of the U. S. Senate," bought the Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal. Abetted by Rogers Caldwell, Nashville capitalist, Col. Lea is looked upon as a special strongman in journalism and politics of the middle south. His papers: Nashville Tennesseean (morning and evening), Memphis Commercial Appeal, Memphis Evening Appeal, Atlanta Constitution* Knoxville Journal. He tried to buy the Kansas City Star, but his $12,000,000 bid was rejected...
Edward Terry Sanford, 62, the third Harding appointee, was once president of the Harvard Alumi Association. A Tennesseean with affiliations ranging from Phi Beta Kappa to Kiwanis, he ranges back & forth between liberalism and conservatism with the open mind of one who sat on district benches for 15 years...