Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock one morning last week, a fat (205 lb.), genial Southerner rolled reluctantly out of bed, downed a cup of coffee laced with bourbon, pulled on a shapeless seersucker suit, and started reading aloud to warm up his vocal cords. Shortly after, Channing Cope, 55, farm editor of the Atlanta Constitution (circ. 187,000) and one of the South's best-known and most influential newspapermen, ambled to an easy chair on his screened front porch...
Last week Newsman Cope was reaching an even broader audience: his first book, Front Porch Farmer (Turner E. Smith & Co.; $2.75) was Atlanta's No. 1 non-fiction bestseller, and four Southern state universities had approved it as an agricultural textbook. Even the rival Atlanta Journal gave Constitution Columnist Cope an ungrudging pat on the back: "An important book for the entire South. Channing Cope is a prophet...
Sanctuary. In Atlanta, an injured pigeon with its tail feathers gone and right side badly mangled interrupted its homeward flight long enough to alight on the lawn of the S.P.C.A. for repairs...
...Atlanta, a bigoted little obstetrician named Samuel Green, the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, was frantically exhorting his Kleagles and Cyclops to mass for a big night of cross-burning and hate-spieling at Stone Mountain next week to prove to everybody that his movement wasn't on the skids. But one Southern governor had denounced the Klan, without suffering for it, as a mob of "hooded hoodlums and sheeted jerks," and in the past year antimasking ordinances had been passed in Atlanta, Columbus and Macon, Ga., Miami and Tallahassee, Fla., and a number of smaller communities...
...time-bombs exploded in their holds. Responsible for a wave of dock strikes and the Black Tom explosion (and suspected of planning the sinking of the Lusitania), Rintelen was decoyed out of the U.S. and captured by British Naval Intelligence, was returned to the U.S., served four years in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary before being pardoned by President Wilson...