Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason that Georgia's prison system was inhumane. Georgia's Governor Eureth Dickinson Rivers last week had his chance for revenge. Lawyers for a Negro barber named Fleming ("Sing") Willis, who had served less than a month of a ten months' sentence for operating an Atlanta lottery, applied for a parole: "Applicant feels that the attitude of Governor Hurley of Massachusetts towards those similarly situated to applicant is more in keeping with the happiness and welfare of applicant than is to be found in the State of Georgia...
...field was good but there was no one in it whom Donald Budge should be expected to fear. Of his Davis Cup teammates, Frank Parker is a precise but lacklustre youth who has never fulfilled his apparent potentialities, and Atlanta's bantam Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant is a highly erratic performer. California's most recent schoolboy sensation, 19-year-old Robert Riggs, who was seeded No. 2 among his countrymen and proceeded to put Gene Mako out as the matches got under way at Forest Hills last week, had bowed to Budge when they met at Newport last month...
...third annual convention of the National Model Railroad Association, and its members discussed such things as the best ways of ballasting track and handling steam boilers with as much warmth as the operating vice president of the Southern would discuss parallel maintenance problems with the superintendent of his Atlanta division...
...milestone in Federal Reserve history was passed last week. Following the example of the Reserve Banks of Chicago, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Richmond, which cut their rediscount rates from 2% to 1½% (TIME, Aug. 30), the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last week cut its rate from 1½% to 1%. This is the lowest fee for loans to member banks ever posted by any central bank in the world. Sample rates in Europe today: Bank of France and Reichsbank. 4%; Bank of England and Bank of The Netherlands. 2% ; Swiss National Bank, 1½%. Lowest previous rate...
Winslow T. Porter, Atlanta Georgia--Boys High School, Atlanta...