Word: silliman
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Tennessee has 38 traditionally Republican counties (out of 95). Of Tennessee's eight big papers* all but one (Silliman Evans' Nashville Tennessean} are out for Wendell Willkie...
...June 1939 ex-Sportsman Emanuel was flying to Nashville to visit his good friend Silliman Evans, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean. An hour late, his excuse was that he had spent the time searching for Fort Knox, hiding place of U. S. gold. Said Evans: "If the Govern ment has done so well in hiding its gold reserves, wouldn't it be a good idea to have airplane factories here?" Within a year Stinson had finished its new $2,000,000 Nashville plant...
Last year, pudgy little Silliman Evans-a onetime Texas reporter, onetime airtransport executive, onetime 4th Assistant Postmaster General, publisher of the Tennessean since 1937-thought that he would like to meet some of his three-star letter writers. So he gave a banquet for them. At the old Hermitage Hotel last week Evans welcomed them to the second annual Three-Star letter writers' dinner, which he called "a happy evening of disagreement." Said Publisher Evans: "You are the brain trust of the Tennessean...
...Nashville he was greeted by the Tennessean's publisher, cyclonic, pudgy Silliman Evans. In a big, red, open, flag-stuck Buick, they roared off at 60 m.p.h. behind ear-busting police sirens down the Franklin Pike to Mr. Evans' home, a plantation once owned by Andrew Jackson's partner John Overton. There field-hands drew beer in tin cups, sweaty cooks turned roasts over barbecue pits, visitors trampled the fresh young daffodils in the meadow. Mr. Farley spoke, shook hands, praised Cordell Hull, Tennessee, the post office, went indoors to eat a vast spread of fried chicken...