Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drinks more than two glasses of milk a meal might endanger his health," Dr. Frederick Stare, head of the Department of Nutrition, warned yesterday. Stare had given a speech in Atlanta, Ga., Thursday on the effect of milk on the diet...
...Atlanta, six days after dynamiters did $200,000 worth of damage to the interior of the Reform Jewish congregation's Temple, a massive effort by city police and far-ranging squads of FBI brought indictments against five local residents who, if not the actual bombers, were deemed to be in on the deed. The indictments, brought under a state statute that carries a maximum penalty of death, marked the first successful police effort against the bands of stealthy racists who have rocked the South with 83 bombs, seven of them against Jewish institutions, since the Supreme Court...
Georgia's Racist Senator Herman Talmadge theorized that the bombing might be a plot of Communists, but Atlanta's 68-year-old Mayor William B. Hartsfield did not need to wait for his police to act before he knew the real criminals: "Every political rabble-rouser is the godfather of these cross burners and dynamiters who sneak about in the dark." Wrote the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill: "Let it be understood that when leadership in high places in any degree fails to support constituted authority, it opens the gates to all those who wish...
...early excitement, the campaign rapidly settled down into a dull, listless affair, and it has remained so ever since. The candidates rarely seem to speak the same language. Hogan discusses crime and maintains his "liberalism;" Keating defends Eisenhower's Formosa policy and makes a pointless offer to investigate the Atlanta temple bombing (before a Jewish audience, of course). Harriman attacks the Eisenhower administration and accuses Rockefeller of "posing as a liberal;" Rockefeller says Harriman is "boss dominated" and claims he will "anticipate problems instead of waiting for them to occur...
Four Nieman Fellows will meet next Monday evening, to discuss the position and progress of desegregation in certain Southern cities. The panelists will include Robert G. McCloskey, Chairman of the Department of Government, John P. Kelley from the Atlanta Journal, John L. Siegenthaler from the Nashville Tennessean, Philip Johnson from the New Orleans Item, and Perry E. Morgan from the Charlotte News. V. O. Key, Jr., Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government, will moderate the discussion...