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...years ago Franklin Roosevelt tried to "purge" him from the Senate. This classic political mistake got Cotton Ed re-elected just as the people of South Carolina were prepared to throw him out. For Cotton Ed exploited the "carpetbag meddling" for all it was worth. Said he, with gallus-snapping righteousness: "You can buy a rubber stamp for a dollar, but you can't buy a man for any price. God made me a man before South Carolina made me a Senator." After that, Cotton Ed's hatred for the President extended to everything that Franklin Roosevelt...
Georgia's Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall: he not only turned out gallus-snapping Eugene Talmadge, but reorganized Georgia's discredited educational system (TIME...
Died. Charles ("Charlie") Ray, 52, homespun hero of the silent cinema; of a throat infection; in Hollywood. During the early '203 he blushed, grinned and gallus-thumbed his way into $100,000 a picture, spent much of his fortune on turquoise bathtubs, lost most of the remainder in his independent production of The Courtship of Miles Standish (1923). Penniless by 1934, he later accepted bit parts, tried to write scripts...
...academically forlorn University of Georgia system was restored last week to accredited standing. The Southern Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools generously made the accrediting retroactive to September 1942-the date when Georgia was dropped from respectable academic society after gallus-snapping Governor Eugene Talmadge had 1) packed the Georgia Board of Regents with political stooges; 2) made himself a member of the board; 3) fired Dean Walter D. Cocking (of the university's College of Education), President Marvin S. Pittman (of Georgia State Teachers College) and others because they were "furriners" (Pittman is Mississippi-born, Cocking Iowa-born...
...Gallus-snapping Gene Talmadge was a bitter, unhappy man last week as he turned over the Governorship of Georgia to stocky, ambitious Ellis Gibbs Arnall. With his coat collar turned up, his owl eyes staring straight ahead, he sat glumly on the platform throughout Arnall's inauguration; when the ceremonies were over he refused to shake hands, stomped off to his home in the hardwood swamps of Telfair County...