Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southern newspaper reactions to Franklin Roosevelt's "Purge" act against Senator Walter George last week at Barnesville, Ga. were chiefly adverse. The Atlanta Constitution snorted: "He would turn the United States Senate into a gathering of 96 Charley McCarthys with himself as the sole Edgar Bergen to pull the strings and supply the vocalisms." Atlanta Journal: "Great is the President's prestige, and great the admiration in which Georgians hold him. But assuredly he cannot do their thinking for them." Charlotte News: "The thing is, in its practical aspect, a desperate and precarious gamble. . . . If the President wins...
ANGUS E. ORR Atlanta...
...journal of Fanny Kemble, famous English actress who abandoned the stage on her U. S. tour to marry a wealthy Georgia plantation owner named Pierce Butler. No Southern writer has ever said a good word for Fanny Kemble. But last week, in Davison-Paxon's book department in Atlanta, Ga., Margaret Armstrong's Fanny Kemble, a sympathetic and excellent biography of this colorful Victorian, outsold all other titles. Elsewhere it crowded the leading non-fiction best-seller The Importance of Living, and with other serious books selling widely, contradicted the theory that summer readers go in for only...
Died. Dr. Robert Emory Blackwell, 83, president of Randolph-Macon College; of a malignant abdominal growth; in Atlanta...
...Chattanooga an average man drinks 70 Coca-Colas a year, in Atlanta he drinks 100, in New Orleans 120. At drugstore counters in a hundred southern towns, at filling stations, country stores, Southerner Jonathan Daniels found his countrymen drinking Coca-Colas, joined them, got them talking about their native land. Last week he published an account of their opinions and his observations, a cool, 346-page book...