Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DALTONE Atlanta...
Happily endowed with money, brains and background is Dr. Michael Hoke of Atlanta. His father. Robert Frederick Hoke. a Major General in the Confederate Army, prospered during Reconstruction by pushing what is now the Seaboard Airline Railroad through North Carolina to Atlanta. Dr. Hoke's mother was a New York Van Wyck. One of his uncles. Robert Van Wyck, was elected mayor of New York City in 1898. Same year, another uncle, Augustan Van Wyck, was defeated for Governor of New York by Roosevelt I. General Hoke wanted his son to become a civil engineer like himself. "Mike" obeyed...
Springs, now a smoothly running, richly endowed sanatorium. His assistant, Dr. Charles Edwin ("Ed") Irwin, 36, became the institution's new Surgeon-in-Chief. Dr. Michael Hoke, 62, happily hunted for an Atlanta office door upon which he could once more have his solitary, independent name glued in letters of gold...
...chief exceptions being the Savannah morning News and evening Press, which also sup ports Landon, and the vigorous, influential Macon Telegraph, whose able Publisher William Thomas Anderson has not forgot ten that Senator Russell kept his brother out of Macon's postmastership. Fiercest Talmadge opposition was from the Atlanta Constitution, which is still coasting along on the reputation the late great Henry Grady made for it in the last century. Says Talmadge: "You know the Const'ution is helpin' me by tellin' all them lies. People jest know they...
...primary system of county unit voting, a version of the nation's Presidential Electoral College plan. Each of Georgia's 159 counties casts no less than two nor more than six primary votes. Hence Echols County, with 300 votes, is one-third as influential as Fulton County (Atlanta), with 30,000. Any three back-country counties can offset the vote of the State's largest city, help give victory to a candidate with a minority popular vote...