Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First U. S. Negro daily: the Atlanta World (circ. 11,995). Founded as a weekly some five years ago it became a daily last year (TIME, April...
...linen will be plenty. We will have overnight pressing service four of the five nights we will be away from home. . . . Not necessary to carry a dinner coat. With these instructions in their pockets, 13 of the Administration's more festive set flew out of Washington to Atlanta. Aboard the plane were Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor. Director for Air Regulation Vidal, Richard Roper, son of the Secretary of Commerce, Oilman James A. Moffett of the NRA and roly-poly little Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Silliman Evans, onetime Fort Worth newspaperman, who organized the junket...
Married. Marion Hughes Whitehead, 22, divorced wife of Conkey Pate Whitehead, Atlanta bottling scion; and Andrew Granville Pierce III, 25, son of the one-time board chairman of American Woolen Co.; in Manhattan...
...unreasonable environment." the Attorney General explained, and only real incorrigibles will be sent there. To Alcatraz will probably go Kidnappers Harvey J. Bailey and George ("Machine Gun") Kelly to view Golden Gate sunsets for the rest of their natural lives. Alphonse ("Scorface Al") Capone may be transferred there from Atlanta Penitentiary.* The Army keeps only two guards armed to watch over the 38 military prisoners now incarcerated on Alcatraz. Since 1858, when Alcatraz first became a military prison, only one convict has escaped. He dressed himself in mourning garments which he stole from the widow of a prison officer...
...Federal Convict No. 14,431, writing in the October issue of Atlanta Penitentiary's Good Words, expressed an oldtimer's resentment of modern criminals and kidnappers. Why, he asked, should "longtimers" continue "to remain imprisoned and be classified with the racketeer of the present day? There are a good many 'longtimers' in here and other similar institutions who have had nothing to do with the outside or its affairs for many years, and it is these men, it seems, who will have to suffer and bear the brunt of public sentiment, because many years ago they...