Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual election-night whoops & hollers from the Atlanta headquarters of old vote-gettin' Eugene Talmadge were strangely absent. Ol' Gene sat glumly by the radio, staring suspiciously through his horn-rimmed glasses at the voice which told him his days as Georgia Governor were numbered. A news photographer entered, asked for a big smile in case the trend changed by the morning editions. Ol' Gene snapped: "Git yore pictures and hurry...
...trend did not change. The count gave Talmadge 117,731; whiz-bang young Attorney General Ellis G. Arnall, 162,889. Despite the Palace Guard he built up during three terms, despite his rabble-rousing, nigger-hating appeal to Georgia's "wool-hat" boys (small farmers), Gene Talmadge had taken a sound trouncing...
Thus ended the reign of the most high-handed, lowbrowed local dictator that U.S. politics has known since the days of the late Huey Long. Posing as a great man suffering for the common people (although his campaigns were financed by reactionary moneybags who liked his low-tax policy). Gene Talmadge had pulled strings and lopped the heads of Georgia politicos for 15 years...
Another flock of Governor Gene Talmadge's fouls came home to roost last week. Ten Georgia colleges, including Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia, were struck from the accredited list of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Reason: Talmadge's "unprecedented and unjustifiable political interference" in ousting top educators in last year's flimsy trials before a stooge board of regents. Gene Talmadge charged that the educators fostered racial coeducation...
Again & again there are glimpses of the sureness of those hands, and insight into a deeply practical mind. Dixon might have been specially trained for this job. He made an all-important sea anchor out of a life jacket, paddles out of his own shoes. He treated Gene's finger expertly when a shark ripped it from end to end. A superstitious man and an "ardent" spiritualist, Dixon was ready to participate in Gene's daily prayers "because it worked a couple of times . . . and later because it gave us something regular to do." When Tony...