Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Chief of Police Charles I. Harris learned his prisoner's name, he telephoned gallus-snapping Governor Gene Talmadge, who usually seizes any chance to sound off on an inflammatory issue. The Governor told Chief Harris to handle the case himself. Hayes and his wife were released on $50 bail. Next day the bail was sent back. When the case was called in court, no one appeared to prosecute. Rome tried to hush up the incident. Atlanta newspapers did not hear about it until four days later, when the Negro Atlanta Daily World broke the story...
Fighting Men Singing Cinecowboy Gene Autry enlisted in the Army Air Corps, passed his physical examination, expected active duty soon...
Talmadge, his manner, as always, that of a great man enduring much for the plain people, stood up, clutching a thick manuscript in one bony hand, started shouting into microphones hooked up to 13 Georgia radio stations. As always, a stooge yelled, "Take off yo' coat. Gene." Talmadge did, showing his red galluses...
...Thus Gene Talmadge, opening his campaign for a fourth term, got off to a bad start. He had more than rain to worry about: the loyal crowd of "wool-hat" boys (small farmers) who always turn out to "hear The Man," was smaller than usual; of ten bands invited to add to the din, only the one from Moultrie High School showed up. The Palace Guard hoped this was the fault of gasoline rationing; but they feared that maybe Georgia at last had tired of Talmadge's witch-doctory...
Observed one ancient, Talmadge-hating cracker: "I reckon Ole Gene done more for education than any man ever to be Governor -he done showed us how bad we need...