Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's civil-rights program with its proposed elimination of Jim Crowism on railroads and buses. Screams of rage and threats of revolt poured forth from Southern Democrats. Roared Mississippi's Senator James Eastland: "This proves that organized mongrel minorities control the Government." From the House floor, Georgia's Gene Cox chanted: "Sounds like the program of the Communist Party...
Once, as a "reverse Rhodes Scholar at Yale," chubby Geoffrey Crowther toured Georgia with three other collegians in a ramshackle flivver. He enjoyed every muddy mile of it. Since then, as editor of the Economist, he has covered the U.S.- and the world-like a politico-economic bird dog working a new, field. And he has made the weekly Economist Britain's most influential periodical...
Born. To James King Kern ("Kay") Kyser, 42, Tarheel bandleader, and Georgia Carroll Kyser, 28, ex-Powers model, Kyser vocalist: their second child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Carroll Amanda. Weight...
Bingham arrived in Chicago from Savannah, Georgia, after the adjournment of the annual meeting of the rules committee, of which he is chairman this year...
...writer was to set down his time as he understood it. He tried to make clear the unofficial standing of writers in America : "They are considered just below acrobats and just above seals." Eventually, Capa & Steinbeck were given an interpreter and approval to go to the Ukraine, Stalingrad and Georgia, where the interpreter himself needed an interpreter. They went by air, always in U.S.-built C-47s, and never found a stewardess who did anything but carry pink soda water and beer to the pilots. In restaurants, of all places, they found red tape as endless as spaghetti...