Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the state of Georgia moved to revoke the charter of the anti-Negro, anti-Semitic Columbians, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 11), demagogic President Emory Burke disdainfully tore the charter to shreds, mailed the pieces to Assistant Attorney General Daniel Duke. The loss of a charter would not stop them. Last week khaki-shirted Columbians assembled for another hate feast...
Next day, in Fulton County Superior Court, Führer Burke begged and got a ten-day delay in Georgia's suit against Columbians...
...late-November, or ear-nipping and climactic stage of college football, only two major teams were still unbeaten and untied. Georgia was a good Class B team plus a back who did almost everything right; U.C.L.A. was a powerhouse squad of 55 players, most of whom had seen action in every game this season...
Numerous small boys on the street contribute to the confusion by calling "scramble," a cry calculated to bring a hail of currency from the passing trolley to be "scrambled" for by the eager bystanders, the resulting fracas being about as mild and gentle as a Boston College-Georgia Tech football game...
...Victor Company brought a portable recording machine as far south as Savanah, Georgia and Hall left Florida as a member of a group under a Mr. Alonzo Ross to make his first record, "Blue Steel." To find a copy of the disc today would be like procuring one of those proverbial hen's teeth, but quite a few must have been circulated at the time because the whole group got a job at New York's famed taxi dance spot, the Roseland, soon afterwards. Edmond has been in and around New York ever since...