The King and I
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25 years ago: 1989
Nashville — An ethics bill requiring deeper financial disclosure by Tennessee public officials and lobbyists jumped a key Senate committee hurdle Tuesday and could be called up for a floor vote Thursday. The Senate State and Local Government Committee rejected repeated attempts by Sen. Joe “Nip” McKnight (D-Jackson) to attach amendments that could have killed the legislation before it passed out of the committee.
50 years ago: 1964
Wholesale grocery firms headquartered in Tennessee with almost 186 million dollars in annual sales were brought together yesterday as Malone & Hyde, Inc. and RaglandPotter & Co. of Nashville agreed to a merger. J.R. Hyde Jr., president of Malone & Hyde, and H.H. Ragland, president of Ragland-Potter, said that the merger is subject to the firms’ stockholder approval. Malone & Hyde shareholders will meet at 10 a.m. April 28 in company offices at 1700 Dunn. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
75 years ago: 1939
Mrs. W. Wright Mitchell, general chairman of the garden design contest sponsored by the Memphis and Shelby County Council of Garden Clubs, has appointed Mrs. Carroll Seabrook chairman of the judges.
100 years ago: 1914
Arriving at the Memphis wharf today will be the James Lee, from Friars Point, the John Lee, from Ashport, the Whisper, from Fulton, and the Grand, from Whitehall.
125 years ago: 1889
Two-thirds of the patients at the City Hospital here come from Arkansas and Mississippi, according to Secretary Williamson, of the Board of Health. He charged that chronic subjects for medical attention and hospital treatment have been sent here from as far away as Vicksburg and Little Rock and suggests that a fund be established to return these indigent persons to their places of origin.