Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hurry stated again and again that the American people simply couldn't trust Democrats to be loyal or "alert"-and thereby by implication he labeled the whole party as a party of treason . . . Nixon is a hard, dirty infighter not overly concerned with campaign ethics . . . DAVID S. BURGESS Atlanta...
...Atlanta, the Southern Regional Education Board, acting for 65 institutions, has taken another approach. It is trying to ease the pressure by keeping the South's campuses from needlessly duplicating facilities. It is making a region-wide survey of courses in international relations and political science; it selected the forestry school of Duke University as the "regional facility" for the Ph.D. in forestry, persuaded Louisiana to set up a much needed animal health research center instead of a superfluous school of veterinary medicine. Indeed, says Executive Director John Ivey, "in this region one can see the day when...
...Frank, as recounted in your Jan. 24 story, "A Political Suicide": You mentioned that Leo Frank was a Jew; however, you failed to state that the strongest factor in the incitement to lynch was antisemitism. I saw with my own eyes some of the handbills circulated in Atlanta at the time of the trial . . . Hate was mongered against all the Jews in town . . . My father was a Jew, living in Atlanta then. He endured the atrocity of the lynchers' parade past his very own door on that fateful night...
Albert R. Israel, for many years one of the most widely known Associated Press men in the South, was then a member of its Atlanta staff. When word came that the mob was assembling, Israel set sail for the scene with this parting admonition: "Fellows, if you want to get in touch with me, I'll be at the so-and-so drugstore at 9 o'clock, but if you telephone, for God's sake don't ask for Israel. Ask for Mr. O'Leary...
...Washington correspondent for the Atlanta World and National Negro Press Association, Louis Lautier stirred up a storm when he applied for admission to the National Press Club last month. The 911-member club had never admitted a Negro before, and the members split into two sharply divided groups over his application (TIME. Jan. 31). But Lautier's backers confidently expected the members to go along with the national trend toward desegregation and end their color bar. On the eve of the club's referendum vote. Lautier wrote a column for Washington's Negro semiweekly Afro-American, personally...