Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest Negro publication, the Chicago Defender (daily, circulation 208,000), is also for Smith. But other negro publications are for Hoover, including: Pittsburgh Courier 45,000 Houston Informer 15,600 St, Louis Argus 26.500 Philadelphia Tribune 15,000 Manhattan Amsterdam News 29,000 Manhattan Age 38,000 Atlanta Independent 11,000 Baltimore Herald-Commonwealth 7,500 Cleveland Call...
Ironic, too, was a story in the Atlanta Constitution about diverticulosis published the very day Strong died. An ignorant reporter chose to be lengthily flippant in describing the contours of intestinal abscesses as shown on X-ray plates...
Further plans are being completed for two teams to tour the country during the Christmas vacation. One will go to Des Moines, Iowa, the other to Atlanta, Georgia, and each will take part in four debates in intermediate cities...
Stone Mountain, Georgia, is an awesome tidal wave of granite which rises above Atlanta. For more than twelve years various persons have schemed to carve upon its surface an overwhelming memorial to the South of the Civil War. General Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis were to ride in mighty panoply across the stony bluff, surrounded by acres of sculpture representing the Southern armies. From the plain below, children of unimagined generations would stare upward at these heroically chiseled warriors of ancient days. But the men who were to shape these titanic figures have been only human, vexatious, quibbling...
...three years he has been cutting it. With scaffolds and staccato electric drills his pygmy assistants have swarmed over the face of Stone Mountain, moulding the gigantic nose, beard, shoulders of General Lee. Often on the plains below has walked Samuel H. Venable of Atlanta. He is the spokesman of the Venable heirs who donated the memorial site...