Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor who did get into the Senate last week (the Senate was sure to accept him) was Major John S. ("Jack") Cohen, of the Atlanta Journal, appointed by Governor Russell of Georgia to succeed the late Senator William Julius Harris. Senator-designate Cohen is also Georgia's Democratic National committeeman. He began newspaper work on the Augusta Chronicle, served the New York World, joined the Journal itself in 1890. Outstanding candidates for the Cohen seat in the November election: Governor Russell and Congressman Charles Robert Crisp, acting chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee...
Richard Norman Clark, Jr. '32, of Atlanta, Georgia, submitted the verses for the hymn which will be sung on the occasion of the Sunday service at which President Lowell delivers the Baccalaureate Sermon, this year to be held on June 19 at 4 o'clock in Sanders Theatre. The winners will receive free Class Day tickets...
...summer these four circuses will play an average of five days a week (twice a day) throughout the U. S., the big show in the large cities of the East and South, if the South is not too poor (last year the Big Tent was folded early in Atlanta). Sells-Floto further west, Hagenbeck-Wallace and Barnes in smaller cities and towns...
...large cities big department stores do not want Negro trade, would not advertise in a Negro daily. 2) White dailies widely cover the Negro field. 3) Most neighborhood stores are slow to advertise anywhere, would choose a Negro paper last. In the face of such obstacles the Atlanta World last fortnight stepped up its publication from thrice-weekly to daily, proudly declared itself the only Negro daily in the world, "the supreme achievement of Negro journalism...
Among Negro journalists the World ("Dixie's Standard Race Journal") is known as "a good little sheet." Its circulation of 14,000 is exceeded by at least ten other Negro papers. Editor William Alexander Scott Jr., 29, founded the Atlanta World four years ago, founded also Southern News Syndicate serving thrice-weekly Worlds in Memphis, Birmingham, Columbus (Ga.), Greenville (N. C.). Like all other Negro papers it concerns itself solely with news of or affecting Blacks. In its first daily issues it exhorted its readers to vote against the recall of Atlanta's Mayor James Lee Key (TIME...