Word: ga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats: Chapman, Ky.; Frear, Del.; Fulbright, Ark.; George, Ga.; Gillette, Iowa; Graham, N.C.; Hill, Ala.; Kilgore, W. Va.; Maybank, S.C.; Miller, Idaho; Sparkman, Ala.; Aithers, Ky. Republicans: Baldwin, Conn.; Cain, Wash.; Ecton, Mont.; Hendrickson, N.J.; McCarthy, Wis.; Thye, Minn.; Young...
...Macon, Ga...
...drawling voice, Davis recalled his early days in Dawson, Ga., where he grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Grandson of a slave and son of a newspaper editor, he had it better than most Southern Negroes. He went north to Amherst where he played varsity football, then took a law degree at Harvard...
...Nazi, but maybe I missed," he says), and later had part of his right elbow blown off by a shell fragment. After discharge, with a plastic patch in his elbow, he changed his name from Tkaczuk to Kazak and began slugging his way up the minor-league ladder (Columbus, Ga.; Omaha; Rochester). Last week, with his .309 batting average making up for occasional fielding lapses, the Cardinals' Kazak was one of the leaders in 1949's "rookie-of-the-year" race...
...prove to everybody that his movement wasn't on the skids. But one Southern governor had denounced the Klan, without suffering for it, as a mob of "hooded hoodlums and sheeted jerks," and in the past year antimasking ordinances had been passed in Atlanta, Columbus and Macon, Ga., Miami and Tallahassee, Fla., and a number of smaller communities. In Grand Dragon Green's home town, the fight against him had been led by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Council of Churchwomen and leaders of Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary and other civic clubs. Reported Alabama's (Negro...