Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allies, including his brother Cheney Griffin (TIME, April 14, 1958), have been indicted on 20 charges, among them embezzlement, theft, tax-record falsification, payroll padding, fraud, perjury and contempt. Georgia is out of pocket an estimated $10 million. Last week, the rare crime of embracery* was added. In Atlanta, Griffin-favored Tractor Dealer H. (for Herbert) Candler Jones, 45, was convicted for offering a $10,000 bribe to a grand-jury foreman...
...Charleston, W. Va., about 450 miles to the west, another Capital Airlines four-engined plane from upper New York State and Pittsburgh also bound for Atlanta crashed while attempting to land. Two bodies were recovered from the wreckage and at least 13 were hospitalized...
BALTIMORE, May 12--A big Capital Airlines New York-to-Atlanta Viscount plane with 27 passengers and a crew of four exploded in flight late tonight about 15 miles east of Baltimore. Twenty-nine bodies were recovered within two hours from the scattered debris...
...them educated in company with Negroes. On the other side are the cause pumpers who somehow always seem to end up at New York fund-raising rallies. Somewhere in between lies a substantial but generally silent group of moderates. Among these, few make their presence more manifest than the Atlanta Constitution's Cartoonist Clifford H. Baldowski, who draws under the name of "Baldy...
This theme-the old South in an agonizing self-appraisal-is subtly stitched through most of Baldy's work, now and then shows up with stark clarity, as in the cartoon that won him a Sigma Delta Chi award last month (see cut). No integrationist, Atlanta's Baldy crusades only for reason. "As far as I'm concerned," he says, "the only thing worse than mixing the races in school is closing the schools. But my mother doesn't feel as strongly about segregation as her mother felt...