Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans of the Ku Klux Klan sounded from Atlanta "the clarion call to battle" against Huey Long. Here and there a bold Louisianan tearfully predicted "killings and bloodshed in this State." Newspaper editors in & out of the State deplored and decried. But it remained for sophisticated Columnist Westbrook Pegler to write from Baton Rouge...
Early Sunday morning two barred and guarded railroad cars slipped out of Atlanta, carrying the first load of "incorrigible" criminals to bleak Alcatraz Island Prison in San Francisco Bay. Newshawks were very sure that at a window of one car they saw the round, grinning face of Gangster Alphonse Capone...
Joel Chandler Harris was primarily a workaday newspaper man who for 24 years wrote editorials and features for the Atlanta Constitution. It was the Constitution which first printed an "Uncle Remus" story and D. Appleton & Co. which first persuaded its author to put a group of them in book form. (First edition: 1880.) A serious student of folklore and Southern dialects, Joel Harris claimed no invention for his stories, contended that he merely compiled them from tales told to him by Negroes...
Enthusiastic Georgians last week were predicting that the money would be raised, the Harris monument erected in time for his bedridden 81-year-old widow to see it. Sure to see it were Joel Harris' children: Mrs. Edwin Camp, wife of the Atlanta Journal's sports writer "Old Timer"; Joel Jr., president of Atlanta's Rotary Club; Lucien, in the insurance business; Evelyn, public relations counsel for Southern Bell Telephone Co.; and Julian, advertising manager of the Atlanta Constitution...
Finally, 14? cotton is money in the bank for planters east of the Mississippi-and Atlanta is the one Federal Reserve Capital which continued, last week, to report mounting New Deal prosperity-but 14? per lb. for this year's 9,000,000 bale crop will not bring to all cottonland as much money as last year's 13,000,000 bale crop at an average...