Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HERMAN JONES Austin, Texas...
November's returns seemed to fit the theory: though all three states were engulfed by the Eisenhower landslide, three Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate (Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie. Oregon's Douglas McKay and Idaho's Herman Welker) lost out to pro-public-power Democrats...
...Amasa B. Ford and Herman K. Hellerstein of Cleveland's Western Reserve University noted that by far the most strenuous of all human activity is "play" -carried to the extreme of championship athletics. When energy expenditure is measured by the rate of calorie consumption, a distance runner or skier can burn up 26.5 calories per minute; healthy young men at amateur sports can work up to a fuel consumption of 18 calories per minute. The heaviest rates for steady work have been reported for coal miners as ranging from 4.3 to 5 calories per minute...
...built and yet manages to keep his budgets balanced. Thriving Atlanta, thickly infiltrated with migrants from the North, is still a Jim Crow city, but is on the whole ashamed of the violent racial prejudice that is the stock in trade of such wool-hat-minded Georgia politicos as Herman Talmadge and Governor Marvin Griffin. The powerful editorial voice of the Atlanta Constitution (circ. 192,520) does not hesitate to speak up for Negro rights, and it found no difficulty in backing Mayor Hartsfield for reelection...
...Georgia, which is now completing a fiveyear, $261 million building program, both Governor Marvin Griffin and Senator Herman Talmadge are against federal aid. State Superintendent of Schools M. D. Collins has endorsed it because he thinks it would hasten school construction. "Georgia," says he, "is certainly capable of financing its own school program, but it would have to be on a long-term basis, say 20 years. The question is whether Georgia wants to take on such an obligation...