Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff members, angrily charged that many of the names in the ad were "non-matriculating students . . . grounds employees, purchasing agents or dieticians." ¶Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell, contender at Chicago for the Democratic presidential nomination, came out for Stevenson in a 750-word statement to Atlanta papers, although "I do not subscribe to every plank of the Democratic platform nor agree with all the views of our party's presidential candidate." ¶Commenting that "I have nothing on earth to lose but a political job," South Carolina's Democratic Representative L. Mendel Rivers announced himself...
...Washington." ¶Four big names in he world of arts and letters announced in New York that they were switching from Eisenhower to Stevenson. The four: Producer-Playwright George Abbott, Author Edna Ferber, Librettist-Producer Oscar Hammerstein II, Producer Irene Selznick. Two big Southern newspapers announced their choice. The Atlanta Journal, the South's largest daily (which has never supported a Republican for President), came out for Stevenson. The Charlotte News, largest evening paper in the Carolinas (which supported Tom Dewey in 1948), announced for Ike. In Baltimore, the Afro-American, the nation's largest Negro weekly (which...
...Boston Braves announced yesterday the assignment of pitchers Bob Chipman and Bert Thiel and second baseman Bill Reed to their Milwaukee farm club in exchange for infielders Hank Ertman and Bob Mainzer, outfielders Bill Brnton and Luis Marquez and eatcher Jim Solt who played for Atlanta last season...
...Johnson added three new states to his territory. He put the final O.K. on plans for five new restaurants along Oklahoma's Turner Turnpike, to be built by Phillips Petroleum and leased to the Johnson company. A new Howard Johnson's will be opened next week in Atlanta; another is abuilding just south of Louisville, Ky. By next spring at least 20 new links will be forged in the chain, including restaurants in Los Angeles and Montreal...
William Gordon, managing editor, Atlanta Daily World. He was graduated at LeMoyne College in 1947. He then joined the Atlanta Daily World, the only Negro daily in the South. He plans to study social and economic problems of the South...