Word: genes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bouquets to you for your article on Gene and Herman Talmadge. It not only showed an insight into the politically adolescent mind of the Southern voter, but gave a taste of what can come about under a Democratic administration, whether it be state or federal...
...line, Columbia is especially weak at the ends and tackles. Yale and Princeton gained most of their yardage through these positions, weaknesses that seem made to order for varsity backs Jim Joslin, Matt Botsford, and Walt Stahura. In the middle of the line, Columbia is somewhat stronger, as guards Gene Appel and George Pappas should give Crimson fullback Tony Gianelli strong opposition...
Retiring to private practice after his second term, Gene was joined by Herman, just out of the University of Georgia law school. Says Herman: "We just about starved. I didn't know any law and he didn't know much about practicing." Yearning to match Huey Long and Theodore Bilbo in the Senate, Gene laid his plans carefully for 1938, when Walter George would run again. As with all Talmadge political plans, they revolved around intensive cultivation of Georgia's farmers, for under Georgia's unit-vote system, it is the farmers who hold the balance...
Retreat with Dignity. More personable, more genial and more subtle as he grew secure in office, Herman began to build a core of support that even old Gene had never achieved. Businessmen who financed Georgia's political campaigns liked Herman's lower corporation taxes and found his conservative views comforting. The rank-and-file voters liked his lavish spending for public works (with no taint of corruption). And after the Supreme Court decisions, even Atlanta moderates found Herman's segregation policies less offensive. So when Herman, in January 1955, turned over the governor's office...
...Gene and Herman Talmadge were the second father-and-son governors of Georgia. The first: Joseph E. Brown, elected 1858, and son Joseph M., elected...