Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John T. King. The Government put Miller and Daugherty on trial in Manhattan in 1927. A hung jury freed Daugherty but convicted Miller of defrauding the U. S. out of his fair and unbiased services as A. P. C. He served a year of an 18-month sentence at Atlanta. Last year the War Department awarded Miller, Delaware Commander of the American Legion, the Order of the Purple Heart for A. E. F. bravery. Last week President Hoover signed an order which restored Miller's citizenship...
...Atlanta...
...blackamoor, went from Cincinnati to Georgia to preach Communism he forgot that in 1866, to prevent white men from seizing the government, some Georgians of his own race, aided by carpetbaggers, had passed a law making it a capital offense to "attempt to incite to insurrection." Last week in Atlanta Angelo Herndon heard himself accused of attempting to set up a "Black State," heard Georgia's white assistant solicitor general ask twelve white men to condemn him to death...
After deliberating two hours the Atlanta jury found Angelo Herndon guilty. "I think the jury was thoroughly justified," said Judge Lee B. Wyatt as he sentenced Angelo Herndon, not to death but to 18-to-20 years in Georgia's much-publicized chain gang.* Counsel Davis promised to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court if necessary...
Back to the family farm at McRae, Ga. from the Executive Mansion in Atlanta went Mrs. Eugene Talmadge, wife of Georgia's new Governor. Said he: "I am sort of city broke, but it's different with Mrs. Talmadge. Sunday morning she was up long before daylight, and this morning it was the same way. At breakfast she announced she was going back to see the cows and chickens...