Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Georgia's Toombs County, deep in the dark land of white supremacy, Robert Mallard was known to many white folks as a "biggety nigger." At 37, he was a traveling salesman, strong, brash and prosperous. His voluminous sales of caskets, embalming fluid, and clothing irked his white competitors. He owned a 36-acre farm, drove a flashy 1948 Frazer sedan. He made frequent trips North and was fond of calling himself "Mister Robert Mallard...
...75th governor of Georgia and the youngest in the U.S., Hummon used the opportunity to shout out the first rebel yell at Harry Truman since the election. "I am proud to say," rasped Hummon, "that [my] administration will throw the full force of your state's governmental machinery behind our Senators and Congressmen in their fight against any anti-Southern measures that may be brought before the next session of Congress...
...inauguration far more sedately than the midnight oath-taking 23 months ago, when he was sworn in by the legislature (to replace his late father) on the strength of 675 write-in votes. His tenure then had lasted 63 days, cut short by a decision of the seven-member Georgia Supreme Court that his "inauguration" was illegal. This time, the court was conspicuously absent from the ceremonies. House Speaker Fred Hand, who introduced all notables, sniggered an explanation: "Someone told me that the Supreme Court came in and found that their seats were filled. And someone in the seats said...
...Samuel Green, Grand Dragon of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan, told the Georgia Tech Technique what nice people the Klansmen are, really: "We don't hate anybody, but most everybody hates us." For example, "It doesn't make me mad because I can't join B'nai B'rith, but it makes the Jews mad because they can't join us ... We don't hate the Jews. Some of my best friends . . . are Jews . .. And then there is the Knights of Columbus organization. They won't let me join their group either...
...which Boswell jotted his observations, to 1,300 pages of working manuscript of the Life. There are pages of Boswell's journal, letters from Sir Joshua Reynolds, Garrick, Burke, Voltaire, a journal of Boswell's tour of Italy, notes for a life of General Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia. Boswell not only kept a copy of the letter he wrote Rousseau asking for an interview ("J'écris mal le francais,'' he apologized), but managed to get his hands on a letter Rousseau wrote to his mistress, Mile. Levasseur (Boswell had a brief affair with...