Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South felt it no problem. Said Atlanta's Mayor William B. Hartsfield: "We have not run into any confusion because we are familiar with correct flag protocol. We fly the Confederate flag on a separate pole on Confederate Memorial Day, and we'll fly the U.N. flag the same...
Michigan. The Linguaphone Institute of America decided that this year the cities in which "sloppy speech" is most prevalent are Brooklyn, Atlanta, Chicago ("Most people sound like they are either being chased by gangsters or are running for trains"), Hollywood and Ypsilanti, Mich. Replied the Mayor of Ypsilanti: "Anyone who can even pronounce 'Ypsilanti' has a great command of the language...
There are, however, other decisions that might be considered as showing a trend to the right. AT the same time it handed down the Miami decision, the Court refused to review an Atlanta censorship case. City officials there had prohibited the showing of "Lost Boundaries"--a picture dealing with racial prejudice--under an ordinance allowing exclusion of any film "adversely affecting peace, health, morals, and good order...
...Fellows are Ernest L. DeVore of Monongahela, Pa., William E. England of Atlanta, Ga., James M. Flynn of Toledo, O., William A. Kittel of Woronoco, Carl W. Lindner of Silver Spring, Md., Roger J. Maher of Pittsburgh, Nathan Norman of Allston, Joseph P. O'Donnell of Somerville, and Gordon A. Padgett of Savannab...
...still be reluctant to expand cotton acreage. Before they plow up their pastures and go back to the feast & famine dangers of cotton, farmers will want assurance that it will pay in the long run, that quotas won't be clamped on again next year. Warned the Atlanta Constitution: "[Farmers] would do well to think . . . carefully before giving up in favor of the lure of quick cotton profits. For big profits, even at 41-cent cotton, may turn out to be a mirage for many...