Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ralph (only a kaw-muh-nist talks like thet)" and "those lyin' Atlanta papers." McGill could detest the ideas of his enemies, but not the men themselves, nor could those who got to know him fail to respect him. In the '30s and '40s McGill and Georgia's demagogic then-Governor Eugene Talmadge engaged in repeated public disputes, but Talmadge seriously asked McGill to write his biography-and McGill never could convince him of the suggestion's absurdity...
...from their national organizations. It is not easy. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court turned down the arguments of two breakaway congregations in Savannah, Ga., that claimed ownership of their church property. The congregations had held that property in trust for the Presbyterian Church of the U.S., but a Georgia judge had declared that such trusts may be broken if the parent church "substantially departs" from the theology that it professed at the time of the affiliation. On that ground, the jury awarded the property to the Eastern Heights and Hull Memorial Presbyterian Churches. But the Supreme Court reversed...
Warren uses all of his forensic skills as he goes about advocating the lowered voting age. Only four states now allow voting before age 21: Georgia and Kentucky at 18, Alaska at 19 and Hawaii at 20. Yet, contends Warren, "the average age of those who fight and die in war is under 21. These men and women rightfully deserve a voice in selecting the government that determines whether there should...
...Georgian Phil Campbell, 51, was appointed Under Secretary of Agriculture. Campbell, his state's agriculture commissioner since 1955, was one of several Georgia officials who deserted the Democrats for Nixon in the campaign. His appointment is a clear signal to the South that its support for the G.O.P. will not pass unnoticed...
Could not Pueblo's crew have defended or at least scuttled their ship to keep its secrets out of Communist hands? The question bothered Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, the influential outgoing chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Finally last week, he raised the doubts that have bothered many Americans. "It is a very sad and tragic affair," he said. "We presented the Russians with hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of research in communications." Russell said that he wanted to see the orders issued to Pueblo's skipper, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher. "These...