Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tell Mr. Worth to come in here," said Georgia's crusty old Carl Vinson. At last the House Armed Services Committee was going to get to the bottom of the anonymous charges that the Air Force's B-36 bomber had been bought in fraud and double-dealing and that the bomber itself was not much good. The hot newsreel floodlights, which went into use only at dramatic moments, were turned...
...tempest, a spent and blowsy drunkard, reeled northward into Georgia and north along the eastern seaboard. Bessie, one of Florida's most ferocious hurricanes, at week's end had been demoted to a "disturbance" on Weather Bureau charts...
...torchlight procession, including a brass band, appeared beneath the legation's windows. The band played Anchors Aweigh and the crowd sang a greeting to Madame la ministre. The bandleader made a speech, which was followed by the Star-Spangled Banner. The demonstrators marched off to Marching Through Georgia. Said Minister Mesta, looking after them from her front porch: "That was a real sweet thing for them...
...Since 1945 known officially as the Association of Georgia Klans...
...years later to send Mamie to the Elgin State Hospital for the insane, where she died in 1947.) But later she got quite positive about it. At the police station, Montgomery recalls, he was beaten up by the cops and the prosecutor told him, "if you were down in Georgia or Mississippi ... we would turn you over to the K.K.K., and we are liable to do it up here." The Ku Klux Klan was strong in the Midwest in those days. Jim Montgomery's trial, on a capital charge, lasted only one day. The prosecution offered no convincing medical...