Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Football: Cotton Bowl (Sat. 1 p.m., Mutual). S.M.U. v. Oregon. Orange Bowl (Sat. 2 p.m., CBS). Texas v. Georgia. Rose Bowl (Sat. 4:45 p.m., CBS). Northwestern v. California...
...dead if you don't." Said a schoolteacher from rural Wisconsin: "I guess just to be sociable. I don't care for it at all; I just choke it down." As a North Carolina building contractor expressed it: "When I drink I feel important." A Georgia farmer: "Drinking takes me right...
...night in September a fiery cross was burned on the lawn of the old governor's mansion of Milledgeville, Ga. (pop. 6,800), once the capital of the state. In the mansion lives President Guy Wells of the Georgia State College for Women, where a group of Negro college educators was meeting. They were frightened out of town. Fortnight ago three men were arrested after a Negro's house was shot up, and there was talk around town that night riders had been driving Negro families out of the county. Such terrorism caused Georgia's oldest weekly...
Their main target was the Hope-Aiken Act (TIME, June 28), under which the Government is free to lower price supports from 90% to 60% of parity after 1950. Led by Georgia's white-haired H. L. Wingate, the Southerners fought a three-day battle behind closed committee doors for a resolution urging Congress to repeal the Hope-Aiken Act, keep price supports at 90% of parity...
...little flavor of hard times. At the huge testimonial dinner ($15 a plate) naming Darryl Zanuck "Man of the Year," there was no noticeable scarcity of mutation mink and diamonds among the 1,500 diners. The only damp spot in this glittering evening was the five minutes during which Georgia's Ellis Arnall got off to a belligerent start as president of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers. He scolded Eric Johnston and brashly challenged him to a debate on monopolies and the movies; he proposed that misbehaving Hollywood figures be "banished"; to top things off, he called...