Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor James Lee Key of Atlanta said last summer: "Prohibition will destroy our people." Last week Rev. Robert Z. Tyler of Atlanta's Grace Methodist...
...geography books. Stockholders also needed geographies to study the properties under President Ohrstrom. They are almost coextensive. The properties of Tri-Utilities' four big subsidiaries (and their subsidiaries) extend from waterworks for householders in Flatbush to power lines in the Arizona desert, from mains of natural gas in Atlanta and Birmingham to acres of gas wells in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. All were listed by President Ohrstrom's accountants, under the head of Total Assets in 1929 and at the end of 1930, when Depression had lifted its hungry head, as $397.487,420. The company served...
...maximum admission of $3. He introduced his backer, Banker William Reynolds Edrington of Fort Worth. Tex. and Manhattan, president of Edrington-Minot Corp. and Edrington Investment Co. It was as a consequence of a birthday party which Producer Carroll gave Banker Edrington that Producer Carroll was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary for perjury in 1927. It was also as a consequence of the birthday party (the producer denied that a girl had sat naked in a tub of wine) that Earl Carroll became a national character...
Producer Carroll is sensitive, nervous, trusting, uses perfume. His term in the Atlanta penitentiary nearly killed him. After he was released, a prison friend came to see him. The man kept looking at his watch. "I find myself doing this all the time," he said. "I get a mental picture of what the other prisoners are doing." Like his paroled friend, Earl Carroll, too, is always looking at his watch...
...grew up with Negroes, had one for nurse, many for playmates, went to their homes, churches, picnics, funerals. He received a degree from the University of California in 1917; when the War broke out he went soldiering, stayed in the Army till 1920. Then he worked on newspapers in Atlanta, New Orleans. Four years ago he quit work to write. His second published story, Child of God, won the O. Henry Memorial Award...