Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday it was obvious that the story on Georgia's gubernatorial confusion, which kept expanding, would need plenty of space for the telling. So several other stories were edited down to make room for it, and others re-written in shorter form. The crash of a Navy plane in California fitted into the story on air safety, and was placed there...
...Georgia was getting more publicity than a two-headed calf-and seemed to suffer from the same ailments which harass such a rare beast. Each of Georgia's heads wanted to go in a different direction. Each mooed incessantly. Each tried to butt the other out of the feedbox. Meanwhile, the animal proper did not seem able to eat, walk or cough up its cud, but simply stood disconsolately, enduring violent disturbances of the fourth stomach...
...Georgia reacted noisily. Hundreds of citizens gathered at impromptu meetings to attack Hummon. Two thousand students from eight Georgia colleges marched on the capitol, hanged Hummon in effigy, and bayed from the street outside. And the state assembly lagged in carrying out Hummon's orders for a white primary bill; so many of his legislative backers left town one day that Thompson's minority was almost able to vote a long recess...
...announced that he expected to get paid at the rate of $12,000 a year. Each appointed state officers. Hummon's had the edge, since they were confirmed by the state senate. But the processes of government began to succumb to a sort of galloping schizophrenia. The 200 Georgia banks which handle state money didn't know which governor to recognize; and one-the Fulton National Bank of Atlanta-prepared to institute legal action to find out who was really...
...news of the week was the high financing of Georgia's high-stepping Halfback Charlie Trippi. He showed up in Manhattan last week with the modern athlete's helper: a business manager. Trippi wanted to play both baseball and football. He began trading. The Boston Red Sox, who offered him a mere $30,000 to sign a baseball contract, were out of the running from the start. Then Trippi played off the New York Yankees (who own both football and baseball units) against Chicago's football Cardinals...