Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Southeast-Kentucky, a perennial runner-up in the Southern Conference. was the team to watch at Atlanta last week where the 13 teams in the new Southeastern Conference played their first tournament. Mississippi State, a dark horse in the upper half of the draw, got to the last round but the final was so one-sided-46 to 27 for Kentucky-that Ralph McGill, sport colyumist for the Atlanta Constitution, put all five Kentucky basketballers on his Conference team. Less enthusiastic observers agreed on two- Ellis Johnson, stocky, cat-footed guard, who fed the ball to Kentucky...
...wind, balloons not too much wind; both are unusable in bad weather; both have been scrapped except for one kite-station in Ellendale, N. Dak. In July 1931, Weather Bureau stations in Chicago, Cleveland and Dallas let the first U. S. contracts to aviators for weather observation. Omaha and Atlanta have been added to the list. A weather plane goes up once a week in Fairbanks, Alaska...
Paul deBarsy deGive, of Atlanta, Georgia...
...leading gangsters of three leading U. S. cities are leaders no more. Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone is rounding out his first year in Atlanta Penitentiary for tax evasion. New York's Owen ("Owney") Madden languishes in Sing Sing for parole violation and Larry Fay, onetime milk racketeer, departed this life New Year's Day, broke. Twenty-four days later Boston's Charles ("King") Solomon, interested in liquor, narcotics and white slaves, was pistoled to death in a Roxbury, Mass, night club...
...bolster the railroads. And in September the biggest stakeholders, including 68 insurance, companies and four great universities, asked five leading citizens to head a committee of inquiry. Coolidge was named chairman. Alexander Legge (International Harvester) represented Republican industrialists. Alfred E Smith. Bernard Mannes Baruch and Clark Howell (Atlanta Constitution) were chosen as Democrats who would bear weight with Franklin Delano Roosevelt when it came to getting this National Transportation Committee's findings translated into...