Word: brevard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polls last week went some 300,000 Georgians to settle the bitterest Democratic primary in a generation. Seeking renomination on a red-hot New Deal platform was 38-year-old Senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr. Seeking the Russell seat in the Senate on a platform of New Deal abuse was Governor Eugene Talmadge (TIME, Sept 7). Bawled Senator Russell night before the primary: "Election of Talmadge would be a slap in the face of the President...
...Virginia's Rush D. Holt. Next week-one day before the anniversary of Long's death-Georgians will have a chance to supply the nation with a Senate successor who comes considerably closer to matching the talents and temperament of the late Kingfish. To oust Senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr., 38, from his comfortable seat in the Democratic primary (as good as election) is the supreme purpose of Governor Eugene ("Our Gene") Talmadge, 51, and a large but indefinite number of Georgians...
...Whutchamean" . . . "not the most beautiful portion of the United States are the Carolinas"? What portion of the U. S. is more beautiful than our Great Smoky Mountains-Banners Elk, Linville Falls, Chimney Rock, Tryon, Brevard, Hendersonville, Blowing Rock and other mountain retreats; or our famous winter resorts-Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Camden, Aiken, Summerville; or Myrtle Beach, Kitty Hawk; and the beautiful gardens of Charleston, Orangeburg and Wilmington, to which we might add our world-known hunting and fishing grounds-Ocracoke, Lake Matta-muskeet and Morehead City...
...Atlanta, said Governor Richard Brevard Russell Jr.: "This decision makes it easy to understand how the most horrible crime of modern times, the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, which shocked the entire world, could occur and go unpunished in a State whose Governor has such ideas...
...concerned," said Governor Richard Brevard Russell Jr. of Georgia, signing the request for Burns's extradition for two Troup County officers to take North, "he will have to take his medicine like any other highway robber...