Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlanta...
...afternoon last week a golden October sun beat down on one of the maddest sport spectacles that Atlanta ever saw. Georgia Tech's football team, which had been unscored on while scoring 119 points in its first three games this season, lined up against Duke University's powerful team. In the first five minutes of the game Duke took the ball in midfield and rolled forward in eleven plays to its first touchdown. That march was a sample of what the final statistics were to show-Duke gained 200 yards by rushing to Georgia Tech...
...Atlanta...
Unable to find a gun-toting Warren County farmer guarding his blackamoors when he got there, keen James Keen sim ply persuaded a visitor from Atlanta to put on a shabby shirt and pants, shoulder a musket, go out in a field and pose near some Negro pickers. When Sheriff Hogan saw the Keen photograph in his paper, he resented the implication that Warren County was holding its blacks in peonage. He set out to arrest the man with the gun. No one could identify him, so Sheriff Hogan challenged the AP to prove the picture was taken in Warren...
Realistic AP General Manager Kent Cooper understands that many photo graphs cannot be spontaneous, but upon investigating the situation through the AP's promising 26-year-old Atlanta Photo Editor William Boring he quickly de cided that initiative had o'erleaped itself. Last week he fired both Messrs. Boring and Keen. Apologetically AP members told their readers : "Investigation revealed the picture was not genuine, but was a picture posed by the photographer, conveyed a false impression, and did not truthfully represent conditions...