Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlanta neighbors of Asa Griggs Candlet Jr., Coca-Cola tycoon, threatened to go to court unless he removed his private zoo from its present site, just within the stone wall at the public roadside, to a remote part of his estate. Mr. Candler began collecting animals four months ago. In cages along the estate wall he placed a Bengal tiger, five elephants (including Rosie, world's largest), a pair of black leopards, a pair of lions (the female is expectant), a pair of llamas which recently had issue, deer, camels, Himalayan goats, zebras, Shetland ponies imported from Germany, eight...
...candidate for Georgia's Democratic senatorial nomination. Primary day is Sept. 14. Opposing him is 34-year-old Governor Richard Brevard Russell Jr.. son of the State's prolific, tobacco-chewing Chief Justice. Governor Russell appointed Major John Sanford Cohen, publisher of the Atlanta Journal, to the Senate vacancy caused by the death of William J. Harris. Governor Russell thus has the Journal's backing, while Mr. Crisp has the support of Clark Howell's Atlanta Constitution. Against him is being used the charge that, after a visit from Georgia Power Co.'s Preston...
...Socialist candidate for President in 1900. That year he got 94,864 votes. In 1904 he got 402,895; in 1908, 420,890; in 1912, 901,873. Allan Benson, carrying the Socialist banner in 1916, polled only 585,113. In 1920 Debs, then a prisoner in the Atlanta Federal penitentiary for violating the Espionage Act, made his fifth run for the Presidency, rolled up the surprising total of 919,799 votes. Four years later the Socialist party threw its lot in with Senator Robert Marion La Follette whose independent presidential candidacy drew 4,882,856 votes from...
...show to Alphonse Capone & family; that the Capones planned to lease 40-acre tracts of the 17,000-acre ranch to a colony of Italian farmers. The show, they said, would be sent back on the road as "a Capone attraction" with Col. Miller as manager. . . . In Federal Penitentiary, Atlanta, Convict Capone has organized his own baseball team, is captain and first baseman...
...Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway which later subleased it to Southern Railway. Cincinnati receives $1,259,000 a year in rentals for its railway and its voters have refused to allow it to be sold. Last week Southern Railway stated it was moving the C. S.'s accounting offices to Atlanta. Attorney Robert Alcorn promptly sought an injunction, claiming the lease stipulates that headquarters must be kept in Cincinnati. The Southern will claim that the accounting offices, which have 200 employes, are not the headquarters. When the case is tried the judge must ponder the fine point of what quarters...