Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlanta Journal's 50,000-watt Station WSB ("Welcome South, Brother"), hang three plaques-awards from Variety for outstanding community service. Last week Manager John M. Outler tacked up a telegram announcing that the station had just won a fourth-for improvement of race relations in race-riven Georgia...
...Atlanta, state legislators learned that an old law required locomotives to go toooooooot-toooooooot toot-toot when approaching Georgia grade crossings, brought it up to date and in conformity with the laws of adjoining states by authorizing toooooooot toooooooot toot-toooooooot...
...night of Jan. 14, when Georgia's legislature met to elect a successor to Governor Gene Talmadge, son Herman's chances were slim. In the first count of write-in ballots, he was running third among the contenders, and the new governor was to be chosen from the top two. Then, suddenly, 58 new votes-all from Talmadge's home county of Telfair-put Hummon back into the running. Ever since then, thoughtful Georgians have been wondering about those 58 votes. Last week they found out. After a month of cloak-&-dagger sleuthing, the Atlanta Journal splashed...
...Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, with the air of a man who is fed up, suggested that the U.S. admit England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland as member states of the U.S. "It would cost this country far less than the commitments now proposed as our obligations. . . . The King could run for the Senate, as could Winston Churchill...
...Georgia the death of Gene Talmadge led to a bitter "Battle of the Governors" among Herman Talmadge, Ellis Arnall...