Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writers agreed with what he said ("earnest and impressive," said the often-critical Washington Post and Times Herald). But most also thought that he was far too late in saying it. "He should have moved when Secretary Humphrey made his incredible [curl your hair] criticism," said the pro-budget Atlanta Constitution. "Meanwhile, the enemies took possession of the field and established themselves on all the strategic positions in the political terrain...
Hartsfield keeps winning elections because of special qualities-both his and Atlanta's. He is a shrewd political showman, rarely misses the chance to make a speech, once delighted his audience by conducting a symphony orchestra with a Confederate flag. He is also an able administrator who gets a lot of public works built and yet manages to keep his budgets balanced. Thriving Atlanta, thickly infiltrated with migrants from the North, is still a Jim Crow city, but is on the whole ashamed of the violent racial prejudice that is the stock in trade of such wool-hat-minded...
Last week, besides endorsing Mayor Hartsfield, thousands of white Atlantans showed their independence in a citywide vote by voting for two Negro office seekers. Atlanta University's longtime President Rufus Clement, 56, beating out a white contender, was re-elected to the board of education, although the white-supremacy camp (which argued that Clement won the seat by accident the first time) tirelessly reminded voters that he is a Negro. Insurance Dealer Theodore Morton Alexander, 48, first Negro to run for alderman in Atlanta since 1871, finished a close second with two white candidates against him, stands an outside...
...Hollywood morals of her heyday as if they were burning issues. For all practical purposes, the Ku Klux Klan is just as dated, but Wallace produced its Imperial Wizard Eldon L. Edwards in a flurry of bedsheets and a flourish of portentous announcements. Edwards, a tongue-tied Atlanta paint sprayer, was a sitting duck for Wallace's speechifying, loaded questions. He managed to emit a few typical noises; e.g., the Bible teaches segregation (though he could not quote a supporting text). But the K.K.K., long discredited in the South itself, is not a real issue. Segregation...
...houses this year. A Seattle builder is busy with a 75-house development ($25,000 and up), is selling to families who lived in $15,000 homes a few years ago. One Dallas builder has made 72 sales of $22,000 houses since Easter. In Atlanta, where overall building is down 30%, builders of $25,000 houses are selling all they can build; some report a waiting list of customers...