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...After an informal dinner for 70, at which Senator Russell of Georgia and Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico (also a Georgian) were guests, the President and his guests sat down to one of the movie shows which constitute frequent White House entertainment. It began with a newsreel. Suddenly a tousled man flashed on the screen. "The trouble with the people in Washington is that they have had common sense educated out of them," he cried. Senator Russell and Governor Winship began to laugh. Franklin Roosevelt let out a hearty roar: that Georgia's recalcitrant Governor Talmadge should tear...
...with the exception of the late Eugene R. Black as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, President Roosevelt has lifted no Georgian to high place as Cabinet member, ambassador, brain-truster, first-rank administrator. His CWA and NRA nettled Georgians by boosting the price of their cheap labor. His AAA drained the tills of Georgia textile millers with the cotton processing tax. His FERA humiliated Georgia by adjudging its elected officials incompetent to administer relief, appointing a Federal representative in their stead. His PWA last week canceled four loans to Georgia, impugned the good faith of its Governor...
With that off his chest, President Few could take time last week to preen himself on a stroke both neighborly and shrewd. Only twelve miles of rolling red hills and scrubby pines separate the Gothic halls of Duke from the Georgian Colonial buildings of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
Crackpot Version Sirs: "It's great to be a Georgian," despite even TIME'S publicizing Erskine Caldwell's crackpot version of conditions in the Empire State of the South. Yanks! He gets paid to write that tomfoolery and the paragraph about the two children playing Romulus and Remus to a "dry-teated" hound is tops in the Uncle Tom's Cabin type of journalism...
...Medieval picturesqueness of the prevailing arrangement and has substituted clarity and logic. Many sensitive heartstrings may quiver at the thought of corrupting English 2 into English 22; to some the progression from the Anglo-Saxon of 3a through the Elizabethan of 32 and the Alexandrian of 50b to the Georgian of 26 may spell abracadabra. Nevertheless, hoary-headed tradition must retire to its armchair when faced with a definite improvement...