Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only they are left alone, Southerners like to say, they can take care of their own racial problems. Last week, in two isolated instances, the South was trying to make good the claim: ¶ Georgia's Department of Corrections, helped by the FBI, started new investi' gations into the killing last July 11 of eight Negro convicts at the Glynn County highway camp (TIME, July 28). A special grand jury had previously exonerated Warden H. G. Worth and the four guards who shot them. Meanwhile, the state acted to prevent a similar massacre; in Charlton County, it abolished...
Many first-class passengers had scarcely been out of Britain before. A lawyer whose hobby is the antiquities of London looked forward to meeting the governor of Georgia, with whom his American son-in-law was acquainted. "Do you suppose," he wondered, "that it would be indelicate of me to ask His Excellency-is that right, do you call him His Excellency?-what that mixup was all about that time they seemed to have several governors of Georgia? Would he mind discussing...
Captain John Eisenhower, whose father had just expressed interest in the Army's chow (TIME, July 21), enrolled in a cooking class at Georgia's Fort Benning. Was that, a reporter wondered, a reflection on the culinary prowess of his bride? "Absolutely not," said John, adding a thoughtful hedge: "Perhaps it makes me a more critical judge...
Down Draft. Because Britain had cut her purchases, tobacco prices at the opening of auctions in Georgia and Florida markets of this year's crop were slightly lower, for the poorer grades, than in 1946. However, all but a few grades were above their Government support levels...
...caught up with Tyrus R. ("Ty")Cobb. High in California's Sierra, the 60-year-old Georgia Peach was driving with his onetime housekeeper, 38-year-old Lucille La Pointe. When she was nabbed for a traffic violation, Cobb started riding the justice of the peace from the sidelines. The justice blew up, jailed Cobb for "being drunk on the public highway," later released him on $25 bail...