Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy court martial sentenced Seaman Menafee to be executed by a firing squad, but Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, to whom capital punishment was abhorrent, acting in the absence of Secretary Daniels, commuted Menafee's sentence to life imprisonment. Last year Prisoner Menafee was released from Atlanta penitentiary on a writ of habeas corpus, only to be returned when a Federal court changed its mind. Again, last week the only person who could save Gus Menafee was Franklin Roosevelt with an executive pardon...
...Treasury and the hard-money Federal Reserve Board, Governor Eugene Black, by all odds the funniest and funniest-looking man in the Administration, showed up at Warm Springs. While his chief was paddling about the tepid swimming pool, Governor Black stood nearby, sorrowfully rattled a copy of the Atlanta Constitution which headlined the recurrent story that he was about to resign. "It isn't so much that it's all wrong," he lamented. "But here [it] occurs in the paper on which I was a director for 35 years. That's what you get for being...
...past nine years, President Roosevelt ate Thanksgiving dinner with the Warm Springs patients. He was in fine fettle, cracking little jokes at his critics and the Press. Introducing Julian Boehme of Atlanta, an amateur magician, the President announced: "I am going to ask him to entertain us with a number of things we have never been able to solve. Perhaps he will put on something about the gold standard...
...Atlanta the President was accompanied by Publisher Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution and Publisher John Sanford ("Major Jack") Cohen of the Journal. Publishers Howell & Cohen are pillars in opposing camps of the Georgia Democracy. Between them President Roosevelt passed a political peace pipe...
Year ago smart, genial Whitefoord Russel Cole's Louisville & Nashville applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for a reduction in coach fare from 3.6? per mi. to 2? A few Western roads (TIME, Oct. 23). Mobile & Ohio, struggling in receivership between two rivers and five competitors, and Atlanta & West Point R. R. followed suit. Meantime, the Southern was experimenting on branch lines with a 1½? coach fare. This line found that with base fares cut more than one-half, net earnings nevertheless increased appreciably. With these heartening precedents, more than 1,000 lines west of the Mississippi...