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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blunt, news-nosed Gene Howe is a colorful, individualistic publisher who is not averse to a bit of honest ballyhoo. Nobody outside the Navy-least of all a newspaper-had ever won a Navy E for recruiting, but Gene ("Old Tack") Howe's Amarillo (Tex.) Globe-News had one-gratefully awarded by the head of the Dallas naval recruiting district, husky Lieut. L. H. Ridout Jr., for recruiting a special squadron of 60 "Skybusters" (naval aviation cadets). Last week he lost...
...Marines were busy; the lieutenant was on the pan; the wire services had spread the story. Reluctantly Old Tack pondered, then cut the E from its frame and gave it to the beaming lieutenant. Said Gene Howe: "It's only an incident, and there are no sore spots on us. The lieutenant is doing a most excellent job of recruiting and ought to have the E himself." On the bare frame which had contained the E Publisher Howe hung a mourning wreath...
Decline & Fall. Until this year, Ol' Gene never had much trouble getting reelected. His wild political rallies, with free fish fries and watermelon, panicked Georgia's rural voters. His traveling stooges, including the famed Tree-Climbing Haggards, yipped encouragement to his glowering, grammar-proof oratory. He showed his red galluses and his love for pore folks. The busy Palace Guard, working less spectacularly, machine-tooled many another vote. Ol' Gene rode high...
This year Gene Talmadge had an energetic young opponent who knew a few tricks of his own. He also had, hanging around his neck like a millstone, a major political mistake. In flimsy trials before a hand-picked Board of Regents, he had fired some of Georgia's top educators on charges (denied) that they favored teaching Negroes and whites in the same schools (TIME, Oct. 27). Result: one scholastic association after another had black-listed the University of Georgia, long the State's pride...
Georgia finally had a bellyful of Ol' Gene. He played frantically on his campaign theme of "white supremacy. State rights, local self-government and oldtime religion." He sent a fiery campaign booklet to all farmers: Do You Want Your Child to Go to School With Negroes? But his attempt to ride back to office on the race issue was a rank failure. Last week's election simply proved a political axiom laid down by Abraham Lincoln...