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...Louie D. Newton, pastor of Atlanta's big Druid Hills Baptist Church, publicly addressed six questions to Mr. Roosevelt, suggesting that the President was trying to put something over on Congress, the Constitution, the people. In Washington, representatives of Northern, Southern and Negro Baptists drafted a letter to the White House (text not released), which they said praised Mr. Roosevelt's peace efforts but deplored the appointment of Mr. Taylor. Last week Christian Century, non-sectarian but Baptist in sympathy, bluntly editorialized...
...Vice President Robert Baker ("Bob") Pegram 3rd, who is the city's No. 1 railroader. These and their kind once would have lived on Peachtree Street (where dogwood blooms in the spring, but there are no peach trees). Now most of the rich live in lush Druid Hills or out beyond Peachtree Creek. Peachtree Street, changing with volatile Atlanta, is becoming a street of bright lights and tourist homes, where Melanie would never deign...
...good time and not be forced to goosestep around with a gun instead of a baseball bat? . . . Did you observe, if you saw the Orioles play, that a fellow named Joe Greenberg was right in there with the- rest of the boys? . . . Did you visit the zoo at Druid Hill Park? That's the closest thing we have to a concentration camp...
...Only Candler prominent in Coca-Cola today is the founder's son, Charles Howard, a director. Best known Candler in Atlanta is another son, Asa Griggs Jr., who keeps a zoo with three elephants in the front yard of his Druid Hills estate. Last month Asa Candler Jr., reported to be in financial difficulties, put up his pipe organ for sale, offered his house to the Decatur (Ga.) American Legion and his zoo to the city. Week later the Georgia Court of Appeals ordered him to pay $10,000 damages to a woman neighbor who charged that a baboon...
...make an after-dinner speech at a banquet of the United Ancient Order of Druids (British social order) one sweltering London night up rose walrus-mustached, bespectacled Charles Richard John ("Sunny") Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (Baron Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, Baron Churchill, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and divorced husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt). He had noticed, remarked His Grace, that his confreres were squirming in black coats, swabbing their necks under hard collars. That was regrettable. He had better sense. To the consternation of every Druid, the Duke had come...