Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After he returned to Georgia to practice law, he was engaged to defend a 19-year-old Communist named Angelo Herndon, who had been arrested for leading an unemployment demonstration. "This case," said Davis, "was the turning point of my whole life. In the course of trying it, I was made the victim with my client of the worst kind of treatment against Negroes. The judge referred to me and my client as 'nigger' and 'darky'* and threatened many times to jail...
Grand Dragon Dr. Samuel J. Green of the Ku Klux Klan gave an interview for The Nation to Negro Journalist Roi Ottley, who told Green that scientific thought and world opinion ran counter to the theory of Negro inferiority. Insisted Green: "I'm still livin' in Georgia, no matter what the world and science thinks." Why, asked Ottley, do Klansmen wear disguises? Explained the Grand Dragon: "So many people are prejudiced against the Klan these days...
...wrestled with its sense of economy, two members of the House came to blows over the Administration's housing bill. Illinois' white-haired, 83-year-old Adolph Sabath, who has more years of service (42) than any other member, was waiting to start things off. Up strode Georgia's blustering Gene Cox to demand ten minutes speaking time for the opposition...
...rambling, five-room Georgia farmhouse at 5 o'clock one morning last week, a fat (205 lb.), genial Southerner rolled reluctantly out of bed, downed a cup of coffee laced with bourbon, pulled on a shapeless seersucker suit, and started reading aloud to warm up his vocal cords. Shortly after, Channing Cope, 55, farm editor of the Atlanta Constitution (circ. 187,000) and one of the South's best-known and most influential newspapermen, ambled to an easy chair on his screened front porch...
Almost daily Cope finds room in his column for his favorite gospel-the coming of a Southland rich with new topsoil, year-round pastureland and milk-fed beef. The foundation of the Cope gospel is the fast-growing vine, kudzu;*he organized Georgia's Kudzu Club (20,000 members), and has plugged the vine so long that friends call him "the Kudzu Kid." It was betting on the horses that introduced Cope (and Georgia) to another important crop. On his way to drop a little money at the 1945 Kentucky Derby, Cope spotted a grass called Kentucky 31 fescue...