Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just eight days after Louisiana sent Huey Long's snub-faced son Russell to the U.S. Senate, Georgia voters triumphantly revived a political dynasty of their own. Trooping to the polls under a sizzling sun, they elected tobacco-chewing, red-gallused Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge, 35, to fill the last two years of tobacco-chewing, red-gallused Ol' Gene's term as governor. It was like old times again...
Teamwork v. Originality. At 50, Charlot has behind him a career that includes Montmartre as well as Mexico City, and a 700-sq.-ft. mural at the University of Georgia...
...Alice Coachman, 25, the Georgia Negro who won the women's Olympic high jump, received an enthusiastic, if well segregated, reception on her return to her native state. She rode in a parade of automobiles from Atlanta to her home in Albany, and crowds cheered along the way. In her home town, prominent citizens gathered on the stage of the auditorium, whites on the right, Negroes on the left, to pay her honor. Mayor James W. ("Taxi") Smith eulogized her in a short speech...
...U.S.C.'s Jeff Cravath, Columbia's Lou Little, Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, Georgia's Wally Butts, Minnesota's Bernie Bierman, S.M.U.'s Matty Bell...
...score. However, I have walked into several right here in New Jersey . . . and have been refused service . . . New Jersey today boasts of more civil rights legislation than any other state in the union, and the state government itself practices more discrimination than Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina or Georgia...