Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unity faction headed by Vice President Mortimer and Mr. Frankensteen, which believes in greater local autonomy. That, in Mr. Martin's opinion, has led to U.A.W.'s "wildcat" strikes. Crux of last week's row was clever, self-assertive Fred C. Pieper, board member from Atlanta and chairman of U.A.W.'s newly created finance committee. According to President Martin's enemies, Mr. Pieper had pre-empted most of the executive authority at Detroit headquarters with no sanction except Mr. Martin's personal blessing. According to President Martin, U.A.W.'s trouble was that...
...holed out, the gallery of 12,000 gathered in the rain outside the old grey clubhouse, shouted for Charley Yates, "the wee Yankee," who had captured their fancy with his drolleries during his visit in Scotland. "Let's all sing a little song," drawled Yankee Yates of Atlanta, Ga., and he began to warble a Scottish air. Everybody laughed, everybody sang, and skirling bagpipes resounded over the Scottish dunes, out into St. Andrew...
First to go out were Johnny Fischer and Ray Billows, defeated by Charley Yates and Johnny Goodman respectively on the second day. "Well, Johnny, it's better to be lucky than good," drawled Atlanta's Yates, the team's clown, after he had ousted Fischer by laying him a dead stymie on the 19th green. In the third round, Captain Ouimet was nosed out on the last hole by hard-hitting Cecil Ewing, one of Ireland's best. On the fourth day, a lashing gale and pounding rain swept even sturdy Johnny Goodman off his balance...
...Champion Yates, a 24-year-old Atlanta bank clerk whose best previous accomplishment had been a Western Amateur victory in 1935, went the distinction of being the fourth U. S.-born-&-bred golfer to win the British Amateur** and the first to beat its peculiar hazards in his first competitive experience on a British course. He attributed his amazing victory to a suit of red flannel underwear his friend and fellow townsman, Bobby Jones, had given him to keep out the Scottish gales. Scottish spectators thought they had seen the greatest golfer since Bobby Jones...
...right to the name, dubbed a Southampton paddle steamer Mauretania. Some time during the next few years the Methodist Episcopal Church, South will be scrapped, a majority of its membership having voted to join a new, nationwide Methodist Church (TIME, May 9). Last week, Attorney G. Seals Aiken of Atlanta, a lay leader in the fight against unification, went into court to salvage his church's name. He obtained a charter for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Inc., invited Southern Methodist individuals and congregations to join it when the present church ceases...