Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herman Eugene ("Hummon") Talmadge, 35, who had tried it on once before for size, triumphantly accepted the mantle of the governorship of Georgia last week. He allowed it would be a good fit after some tailoring...
...Tallul'ah, an Indian word of unknown origin (it may mean "terrible"), came to her by way of her maternal grandmother from Tallulah Falls in northeastern Georgia. The falls are now dammed, but, appropriately, there is a Tallulah Power Plant...
...North Carolina's Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, who last week celebrated his 85th birthday. In the place of New Jersey's Fred Hartley as chairman of the Labor Committee will be Michigan's liberal John Lesinski. Chairmanship of the Un-American Activities Committee will return to Georgia's John S. Wood, who, following past form, will probably let Mississippi's ranting John Rankin run the show...
...MacCormack becomes House majority leader, as expected, he will probably abandon his claim on the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments. Next in line is Chicago's William L. Dawson, one of two Negroes in Congress (the other: New York's Adam Clayton Powell Jr.). Born in Georgia, Dawson is big, dark-skinned, a lawyer, a powerful speaker. He would be the first Negro to serve as a committee chairman in modern congressional history...
...Georgia Tech's pony backfield slipped and slithered in the mud at Atlanta, and fell before Tennessee, 13-6. It was Tech's first 1948 defeat. In a drizzling rain, North Carolina's undefeated Tar Heels (rated No. 3 in the nation) were held to a 7-7 tie by underdog William & Mary...