Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from 1944 on also supervised the bank's major loans (e.g., to Henry Kaiser, Israel, etc.). Given the chairmanship as an honorarium, he will retire on his 6 5th birthday next May. ¶ Carleton Putnam, 52, announced that he would step down as board chairman of Atlanta's Delta Air Lines, Inc. this week. A well-to-do Princeton graduate ('24), Putnam bought his own plane, became so enthusiastic about flying that he formed Chicago & Southern Air Lines in 1934. When C. & S. merged with Delta last year, Putnam tangled with Delta President C. E. Woolman over...
MOTEL OPERATORS in the South are beginning to cash in on the lucrative Negro market (TIME, July 5). First motels for Negroes have proved so successful that four more have been opened for Negro travelers in Florida, Kentucky and Alabama this year, with a fifth just completed in Atlanta with air conditioning, TV and tile baths...
...eleventh panel, for instance, is based on Goethe's belief, "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. "As an illustration the panel includes a picture of the Ku Kiux Klan demonstrating against the Atlanta Constitution...
...almost solemn harmonization of In My Father's House Are Many Mansions. After that came M. C. Fowler's own group, the white-suited Oak Ridge Quartet, then the Blackwood Brothers, who brought down the house with Have You Talked to the Man Upstairs?, and Atlanta's own Statesmen, the local favorites. Among the evening's repertory: Riding the Range with Jesus and Everybody's Gonna Have a Wonderful Time up There. As the evening wore on, the program offered more pratfalls than prayers, but the all-white audience loved it, happily munching popcorn...
Delaware was not the only infected area last week. In Georgia, 24 knights of the Ku Klux Klan, wearing white robes, gathered around a burning cross near Atlanta to hear two speakers rail against the "black-robed buzzards of the Supreme Court." In Marion County, W. Va., Judge J. Harper Meredith had to issue an injunction to stop 53 white parents from threatening teachers on their way to the partially segregated Annabelle School. Such obstructionism, said the judge, "is a rebellion against the government . . . If necessary, I'll fill the jail until their feet are sticking out the windows...