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With these words a skinny, bespectacled, schoolteacherish Georgian uprose last week in the House of Representatives. There was no objection, for the Honorable Braswell Drue Deen of Alma, who at this session has wangled from his party leaders a total of only eight minutes speaking time, had just been promised two minutes more by Rules Committee Chairman O'Connor. Seizing time by the forelock Representative Deen launched into the most gratefully received two-minute speech delivered this year in the house: "Mr. Speaker, there are many reasons why the House and Senate should quickly adjourn this session...
...bought a 2,000-acre estate at Lloyd's Neck on Long Island. There he built a magnificent Georgian mansion overlooking Long Island Sound, a Georgian stable embellished with scrollwork, numerous cottages and barns, a 20-car garage, a power plant. He collected paintings. He kept prize Guernsey cows. He contributed to the Republican Party. He became a director of Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. and a dozen other companies. He helped support the Field Museum in Chicago. His grandfather's estate, of which he is one of the trustees, spent $4,000,000 building low-cost apartments...
...Come up here, you Georgia Crackers!" 75-year-old W. A. Shiver shouted through his snowy, walrus mustache. This tieless cotton farmer from Cairo, Ga. also launched a running tirade against his fellow-Georgian, anti-New Dealer Governor Eugene Talmadge, crying: "We ain't got no Governor, but we're here anyhow...
Saito prides himself on his U. S. ways, his "Americanese" ("made," he jokes, "in Japan"). In Washington he has staffed his Delano & Aldrich, neo-Georgian Embassy with what he believes are the closest Oriental approximations of U. S. "good fellows." His corps of 18 (the British have 15) is more numerous and harder-working than that of any other Embassy. Having observed the lobbying tactics of fellow-Washingtonians, shrewd Hirosi Saito spends most of his Embassy allowance for "representation" not on balls and champagne for Washington socialites but on highballs and beefsteak suppers for the Press. When he makes...
...idea could have been more appalling to the late tall, bald Prince Georges Vasili Matchabelli. Georgian-born, like the marrying Mdivanis (but with the difference that his right to his title was never questioned), no Georgian prince was ever more aware than he of the value of a title. Once Minister to Rome for the short-lived Georgian Republic of 1918-21, he married the Italian Actress Maria Carmi, went...