Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Born in Atlanta, where his father was a governor on the Federal Reserve Board, Black graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Georgia at 19, served in the Navy during World War I, then went into the banking business. He was a senior vice president of the Chase National Bank in New York City when he was named World Bank president five years...
...some time, Georgians have been expecting their Commissioner of Agriculture, Tom Linder, 66, to go after the nomination for governor, since Governor Herman Talmadge cannot succeed himself. Last week Tom began to qualify for the governorship by delivering an oration at the Confederate Memorial Day ceremonies in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery, where 4,000 Confederate soldiers lie buried. For roaring bombast of a style almost lost to U.S. politics, Tom Linder set a standard that the five other eager aspirants will find hard to match...
Orator Linder was so pleased with his speech that he bought time on three local radio stations for recorded broadcasts and a black-bordered ad in the Atlanta Constitution to spread the word. Said Herman Talmadge: "Tom would not be spending his money unless he was figuring on being a candidate...
Long, tedious manufacturing and testing the vaccine for safety had delayed the trials so that in some areas they had to be canceled. In the Atlanta district, where plans had been well made in advance (TIME, April 26), two cases of polio, one of them paralytic, had appeared unseasonably early, and no vaccinations can be given where the disease has already begun its annual upswing. Other areas were certain to be similarly hit. Milwaukee decided to drop out because local health officers wanted to wait so long-to see how things go elsewhere-that there would be no time...
Another Year, Perhaps? In Atlanta, the women's chamber of commerce decided to postpone Noise Abatement Week when it learned that its antilittering committee had already scheduled a parade, with ten brass bands, 125 marching units, a garbage truck, and eight National Guard jets for low air cover...