Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Mrs. Thurman he said he was a "sophomore in law school in Massachusetts," and was going to "work" all the big cities between there and New Orleans, specifically naming Atlanta, Georgia. He said he planned to go back when he got enough money...
...went up to $41. Last year it stood at $42.50. Last week, on the last day of 1937, the Boston Evening American and the Washington Evening Star announced that they were going to raise their prices from 2? to 3? and eight other U. S. newspapers-from the Atlanta Georgian to the Omaha World-Herald-raised their weekly subscription rates 5?. For by the end of 1938 all newsprint will be costing $50 a ton. That will raise the year's operating costs of U. S. newspapers about...
...years brown-faced, square-shouldered George Leoles, 48, was known by his fellow Atlantans as a useful, loyal U. S. citizen. Ace hat cleaner of smoky Atlanta, each morning he left his popular little shop opposite the Federal Reserve Bank, smilingly made the rounds of Atlanta businessmen's downtown offices picking up their dusty hats to clean. He was active in the Parent-Teacher Association of the Crew Street School, attended by his shy, 12-year-old daughter Dorothy. One day a little more than a year ago, the principal of Dorothy's school noticed...
Engaged. Randolph Apperson Hearst, 21, youngest (with his twin David) of William Randolph Hearst's five sons; and Catherine Wood Campbell, 20, of Atlanta...
...first Sit-Down in the automobile industry-a protest against a company ban on wearing union buttons-occurred just a year ago in a General Motors' Fisher Body plant in Atlanta. Last week, appropriately if unconsciously, a group of rebel United Automobile Workers celebrated that Sit-Down's first anniversary by sitting down once in the Detroit Cadillac plant, twice in the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, where 14,700 General Motors workers were promptly thrown out of work.* Outlawed by the union, unsupported by officers of the local, the second Fisher Body strike was soon down...