Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN Contributing Editor Spencer L. Davidson went down to Herman Talmadge's 2,400-acre plantation below Atlanta for a closeup of this week's cover subject, he discovered that his visit was a bit untimely. It was the tail end of the dove season, and Governor Talmadge, an ardent hunter, was eager to get out into the millet fields. Writer Davidson, a city boy from Baltimore, went along. "I guess," he says ruefully, "I'm the only guy who ever went dove hunting in a grey flannel suit." On the second afternoon afield, "Spence" fired...
...gone out to marshal dead voters whose names could shoot his total higher. Now as the rain pattered outside, and shouting, drinking countrymen watched from the gallery, the legislature considered the two men eligible to succeed the departed Gene. With smug solemnity and a 161-87 vote, it chose Herman Talmadge...
After the crowd howled approval, Herman took the oath, pledged himself to strengthen the white primary and Georgia's county unit-voting system. Flanked by family and advisers, he marched one flight down to the governor's office, where outgoing Governor Ellis Arnall awaited the legislature's decision. Said Herman: "I have come to take over." Snapped Arnall: "I consider you a pretender. Get out." Herman got, was back in seven hours, after state troopers had changed the locks on the doors. Herman Talmadge held the Capitol and the governor's mansion until the State Supreme...
...Georgia, Herman Talmadge, 43, proved himself not only a far more polished platform performer but a better vote-getter than his late father, gallus-snapping Old Gene. Ex-Governor Talmadge, running for the U.S. Senate seat of the retiring Walter George, piled up a four-to-one margin over onetime Acting Governor Melvin Thompson, in the process carried every one of the state's 159 counties-a feat his daddy could never match. Winning an election at a relatively early age in a state accustomed to sticking with its Senators, this new breed of white-supremacy demagogue could well...
...Turned away by force, they returned under escort after National Guard Adjutant General J.J.B. Williams arrived in town with 500 troops. Despite an opinion by State Attorney General J. M. Ferguson that Mrs. Gordon had enrolled her children in the school prematurely and illegally, and a demand from Mayor Herman Z. Clark that the troops withdraw, General Williams announced his intention to remain as long as necessary to maintain order. Replied Mayor Clark: "We're having all the people in town sign a petition asking all the teachers to stay out of school until the Negroes...