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Word: atlantae (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlanta, oldtime Cinemactor Francis X. Bushman asked to be driven to the capitol grounds for a look at the statue of Confederate General John B. Gordon. Explained Bushman, recalling his days as an artist's model at $10 a pose, "I've always wanted to see him. I posed for his body but they added General Gordon's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Kith & Kin | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta, over Cleveland Schoolteacher Claire Doran, the National Women's Amateur Golf championship, 2 and 1 ; at St. Paul's Town & Country Club. In the 18 years since she won the Georgia State women's tournament as a 13-year-old girl wonder, Golfer Kirby has played in 10 nationals, twice before reached the final round (1939, 1947). Next stop: the National Women's Open in her home town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...preached venomous hate for the U.S.; in the early '30s Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes called him "a dangerous person." By 1936 Albizu's movement came to bloodshed. A Nationalist murdered the popular chief of the Insular Police, bringing on an investigation which landed Albizu in Atlanta federal prison; he served six years for conspiring to overthrow U.S. rule in Puerto Rico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: A Dangerous Person | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...rail shipments of manufactured goods to all parts of the U.S. east of the Rockies by Jan. 1. Southerners have long complained that freight rates have been stacked against the South; e.g., it is 20% cheaper to ship some goods from Chicago to New York (890 miles) than from Atlanta to New York (868 miles). By removing these differentials, ICC's order-following a 1947 Supreme Court decision holding such rates discriminatory-will save Southern businessmen an estimated $20 million a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Southern Comfort | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Weather Rapport. In Atlanta, police tallied up some of the effects of a ten-day heat wave, found that wife beatings were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 13, 1951 | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

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