Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...granulopenia. During the past three years it killed 1,300 U. S. people, mostly housewives. Physicians, nurses and their families suffered high mortality. Rarely has a poor person died of the disease, rarely a Negro. Finding out why became Dr. Roy Rachford Kracke's job at Emory University, Atlanta. Clever reasoning led him to suspect certain new-fangled pain-killing drugs manufactured from benzamine derivatives of coal tar. Negroes, who seldom complain of minor aches or pains, do not use those drugs. Poor people cannot afford them. Doctors get them as free samples. "We have seen few physicians," said...
...Remote from the bar ballyhoo are the makers of candy in bulk and in boxes: Chicago's Bunte Bros., E. J. Brach; New York's Henry Heide; Boston's Schrafft and New York's Loft (both also restaurateurs; ; Cambridge's New England Confectionery: Atlanta's Nunnally; Philadelphia's Stephen F. Whitman. Brandle & Smith; St. Louis' National Candy; Pittsburgh's Hardie Bros.; Milwaukee's Robert A. Johnston, Ziegler; Chattanooga's Brock Candy. Depression has hit the candy industry's gaudy heroes. Ten cent bars were reduced...
...loud, lusty Memphis, Tenn. knocked off all work, played host to the bankers and businessmen, the planters and politicians, the farmers and their field hands. Negroes, white trash and riffraff of the entire mid-Mississippi Valley in one grand, rip-snorting jubilee-the fourth annual Cotton Carnival.* Richmond, Atlanta and New Orleans had had their days, would have them again. But last week was Memphis's and on her was every eye in Dixie. Memphis, where De Soto built his river barges 79 years before anybody heard of Plymouth Rock. Memphis, the town that Andrew Jackson could have named...
...infirmity. Also there are vacancies in the Methodist episcopacy: two because of death and three because of the pending retirement of three well-beloved prelates, Horace Mellard Du Bose, 75, of Nashville; Collins Denny, 79, of Richmond; and Warren A. Candler, 76, who, a member of Atlanta's Coca-Cola family, received newshawks one night last week in his oldtime white cotton nightgown. Would the conference elect five new bishops? Or for economy's sake would it leave their posts vacant? And would it, as some delegates desired, create a new vacancy by retiring Bishop James Cannon...
...Other underwriters included the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Times, Washington Star, Washington Post, Philadelphia Bulletin, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland News, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Globe Democrat, Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal, Minneapolis Tribune, Des Moines Register and Tribune, Omaha World-Herald, Milwaukee Journal, Miami Daily News, Dayton News, Buffalo News, Buffalo Courier-Express, Syracuse Herald, Oklahoma City Oklahoman, Dallas News and the Dallas Times-Herald. The cost ranged from $25,000 in smaller cities up to a high...