Word: gaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlanta, some 200 representatives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People adopted a strong resolution setting next September as the target date for desegregation of schools in the Southeast (Ala., Fla., Ga., Miss., N.C., S.C., Term.). Added the N.A.A.C.P.: "We are not alarmed by those state governments which . . are seeking to circumvent the Supreme Court's decision [against school segregation]. These undemocratic and unconstitutional methods will fail...
Nathaniel LaMar '55, of Atlanta, Ga., and Eliot House, has been awarded a Henry Fellowship for study at either Oxford or Cambridge University during the 1955-56 academic year. He intends to use the fellowship to study English Literature at Cambridge. LaMar is an honors candidate in English...
...along, go along." More than 20 members addressed the House. Party lines were wiped out. Ten nessee's Democratic Representative Ross Bass lashed the Republicans for not supporting the bill. As he spoke, Democratic Representative James C. Davis (who has a textile mill in his Stone Mountain, Ga. district) was conferring with Dan Reed about beating it, while Republican Joe Martin had crossed the aisle to consult with Democrat Jere Cooper...
...applicants-are psychiatric cases, 14% are tuberculous; "the turnover is slow, keeps 90% of VA hospital beds filled (compared with 85% for non-VA hospitals). Thanks to congressional pork-barreling, many VA hospitals are sparsely occupied white elephants, e.g., a modern, 1,000-bed general hospital in Dublin, Ga., has only 385 beds...
Jimmy Carmichael started out in politics. He got his LL.B. from Georgia's Emory University ('33), he became a small-town (Marietta, Ga.) lawyer and went to the state legislature. After the war he ran for governor against Herman E. Talmadge, and was beaten under the state's county unit system, although he won the popular vote. After that, he joined Scripto as assistant to the president. A year later he became president, started the company expanding rapidly with ball-point pens, became the second biggest ball-point pen maker (behind Los Angeles' Paper-Mate...