Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week these signposts also appeared on the rocky integration road: Atlanta 312 ministers signed a petition and warned against false prophets: "Those who insist that the decision of the Supreme Court on segregation in the public schools has no binding force do great injury to our people."
Georgia's lawyers and reporters alike walk on tiptoe in the presence of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Durwood T. Pye, a terrible-tempered, robe-twitching jurist whose boiling point is the lowest on the Atlanta bench. Pye once ordered the wholesale arrest of noisy loungers in a corridor outside his courtroom, had to reverse himself when it developed that the loudest noisemaker was a fellow judge, telling jokes at the Coke machine. Last week, mustering a group courage, the Georgia press loudly complained that the autocratic judge had gone...
...Miller's new home was smeared and smashed by race baiters, white neighbors finished a repair and repaint job with materials bought by the Board of Trade, Lions Club, American Legion and other civic groups. ¶ Georgia's Governor-elect Ernest Vandiver warned that he would close Atlanta schools if they were integrated by pending court cases, was met by Atlanta Mayor William Berry Hartsfield's demand that the city have the option between integration or no school...
...shortage continues much longer, many a dealer fears he will lose sales. Some of the more optimistic have already lowered their sights. "We had a terrific reception to the new models," says John Bugmire, general manager of Atlanta's Nalley Chevrolet. "This shortage hurts badly." Pontiac Dealer A. E. England of Hollywood, Calif, said that "You can't firm an order when you haven't got a model to show," and Irving Esserman of Chicago's Esserman Motor Sales, a large Chrysler-Plymouth dealer, said flatly that "We're being strangled by the shortage...
...ATLANTA CONSTITUTION: THE G.O.P. Administration, despite integrity and the good will of the President, has provided little vision or leadership. It has been indecisive, uncertain and hesitant. The people had lost confidence...