Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ATLANTA JOURNAL: [Strauss] either can't, or won't give straight answers to straight questions. He seems a man with little faith in the Senate or the people. Now the Senate has replied, in the name of the people...
From the bench of Georgia's Fulton County superior court, Judge Durwood T. Pye keeps a hot eye on the Atlanta press. Last November, during a civil hearing, Judge Pye barred news photographers not only from the courthouse but from "adjacent sidewalks and streets" (TIME, Dec. 1). Last week Atlanta's two associated papers, the Constitution and the Journal, faced a far stiffer rap from Pye: a $20,000 fine for contempt of court...
Dusting off a 66-year-old Georgia Supreme Court opinion ("No newspaper has a right while a case is under investigation to comment upon its merits," etc.), Judge Pye then held both Atlanta papers in contempt for "interfering with the business of the court." Said the judge coldly: "The amount of the fine should take into consideration that the offenses were calculated, designed, deliberate and repeated. This corporation [i.e., the papers] takes the position that all that which it here did was its absolute right and privilege to do. It has no such right, and it must be taught...
...step toward integrating Atlanta's segregated schools was taken last week by U.S. District Judge Frank A. Hooper. After declaring segregation illegal, he granted an injunction against discrimination in the schools, whose 67,000 white and 46,000 Negro students are 10% of Georgia's school-age children. Carefully, Georgia-born Judge Hooper did not order integration by next September; he ordered the city's board of education to submit a plan within a "reasonable" time. He had reason for caution: arch-segregationist Georgia already has a ticklish law allowing Governor S. Ernest Vandiver to close integrated...
...Jury Foreman Edward Westlake, 39, and proposed a $100,000 payment for hamstringing that and other investigations. Westlake refused, reported the offer to State Solicitor General Paul Webb. At Webb's urging, Westlake got in touch with Jones again, hinted at a change of heart. Meeting at an Atlanta tree nursery, the two agreed on a $10,000 price tag on the single charge against Jones...