TENNESSEE: Gift Trailer

Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, Soprano Grace Moore, Vanderbilt University's All-America football captain, Carl Hinkle Jr., and Manager Bill Terry of the New York Giants are all alike colonels on the staff of Tennessee's New Dealish Governor Gordon Browning. Last week Governor Browning, setting out from Knoxville to stump for next August's Democratic primary exhibited a gift presented to him by his Colonel Frank Cox, Chattanooga banker, on behalf of the 62 fellow colonels.* It was a shiny, 20-ft. maroon trailer, with three compartments, rich leather upholstery, running water, an observation tower, an equally...

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