Word: tennessean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wanted. The Amazon's new awakening is beset with old problems. Tennessean Ronald Richardson, now 46, who after World War II duty in Belém stayed on to set up a lumber mill outside the town, knows them well; jungle vines are spreading over the mill and pigs root through his crumbling office. "It's here," he says. "No doubt about it-all the riches on earth. I don't know how to get it out, but dammit"-he pounded his desk so hard the Scotch bottle jumped-"it's here! We need men, real...
Born in Middlesboro, Kentucky--"just north of the Cumberland Gap and Daniel Boone country"--Price attended Vanderbilt University, majoring in history and political science and graduating in 1931. After a year off on the Nashville Tennessean, he continued his studies as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford...
Gore's 15-minute White House appointment stretched into 45 minutes as President Eisenhower shot questions at the Tennessean. The President bridled once when Albert Gore, carried away, said passionately: "I want my President to call [the Russian] bluff." But for the most part Dwight Eisenhower seemed impressed, asked Gore to submit his proposals in a formal memorandum. Gore did, also talked over his ideas with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and new AEC Chairman John McCone. Under close examination, flaws might appear in Albert Gore's plan, but at least it had the merit of suggesting...
Four Nieman Fellows will meet next Monday evening, to discuss the position and progress of desegregation in certain Southern cities. The panelists will include Robert G. McCloskey, Chairman of the Department of Government, John P. Kelley from the Atlanta Journal, John L. Siegenthaler from the Nashville Tennessean, Philip Johnson from the New Orleans Item, and Perry E. Morgan from the Charlotte News. V. O. Key, Jr., Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government, will moderate the discussion...
Siegenthaler, a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean, cited occurrences in Nashville as fairly typical of what has been happening in the South. There was no real trouble until mob leaders such as John Kasper began to preach resistance to the Supreme Court...