Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election night, 36-year-old Herman Talmadge, the youngest governor in the U.S., his pretty second wife, and Georgia Kingmaker Roy V. Harris watched the returns in a seventh-floor suite of Atlanta's Henry Grady Hotel. Actually, the Talmadges were just observing the formalities. Even if Herman lost the popular vote, Georgia's one-sided county-unit electoral system was bound to keep him in office, just as it had his pappy, the late Gene Talmadge, before...
Colonel Abay's young intelligence officer, Captain Herman Sevillia, tells with great earnestness of new efforts to win the people's trust. It is a matter of convincing them that the army can protect them. "Then the people talk to us," the captain says. "They tell us their troubles. If we do not have the aid of the people, we do not know which ones to shoot...
Battle Ground. On the hustings last week, ex-Governor Melvin Ernest Thompson shouted himself hoarse with a vigor that astounded voters who remembered his fumbling efforts two years ago. In reply, young Herman Talmadge, showing his red suspenders, mocked the people who said his rival was a changed man. It reminded him, said Talmadge, of a contrite drunk coming home to his wife. Countered Thompson: "I know of no man in Georgia who is a greater authority on a man coming home drunk than the present governor...
Despite the vigorous words, the campaign seemed apathetic, a week before the election. Roy Harris was confident. He knew that Talmadge had the big-money support (at a recent dinner, Coca-Cola Tycoon Robert Woodruff toasted Herman: "To the best governor Georgia ever had, sired by the next best governor"). Roy was not worried about the Negro vote: "The niggers are a little disgusted. They thought they were going to get equality and now they have found out they are not. Now you have to pay the preachers to get 'em out." That wasn't worth the expense...
...superior-general of the Roman Catholic Congregation of the Brothers of St. Francis Xavier; in Fort Monroe, Va. As superintendent of St. Mary's Industrial School in Baltimore, Brother Paul encouraged the star of the school's baseball team, a promising lefthanded pitcher named George Herman Ruth...