Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drummers' Stock. In Atlanta, the Cordelia Hosiery Shop displayed 300 pairs of sheer black nylons as customer bait, within 48 hours sold them all to Salvation Army lassies in town for a convention...
...Founded in 1925 in Washington, D.C. by a physician-nun, Mother Anna Dengel, the Medical Mission Sisters now have 170 members, maternity hospitals in India, England, Atlanta. They conduct one of the three schools for midwives in the U.S. The others: Kentucky's Frontier School of Midwifery, Manhattan's Maternity Center Association...
Said President Benjamin E. Mays, head of Atlanta University's Morehouse College (for Negroes): "I would tremble for the Christian cause if 50 Negroes were to enter an average local church in this country on a Sunday morning and ask to become members. Fundamentally we are afraid ... to practise the Christian religion...
...ready to vote on the report of its Social Service Committee: ". . . That the Christian people of Georgia be urged to apply the principles of Jesus in a serious effort to allay the growing race tensions so spotlighted by the lynchings in Georgia and the recent Columbians Inc. disturbances in Atlanta." Up jumped ex-Navy Chaplain Joseph A. Rabun, 39, new pastor of the McRae Baptist Church, where rabble-rousing, Governor-elect Gene Talmadge is the leading lay member. Shouted Pastor Rabun: "That is not strong enough! We need to condemn with all our power race hatred." Visit with Gene. Goaded...
Traveling Bag. In Atlanta, Ruth Brown lost her handbag in a restaurant, went to a store to buy a new one, found her own bag for sale on the counter...