Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like his father before him, U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge has ruled Georgia by Negro-baiting campaigns and the one-party "county unit" primary. The two sources of power support each other, for the county unit system can let one Negro-hating woolhat in a rural county outvote 154 Atlanta moderates. But the South is changing, as nobody knows better than tough-minded Herman Talmadge. He has toned down his racism, noted carefully that the unfair unit system has come perilously close to defeat in four test cases that went to the Supreme Court. Last week Talmadge hinted to Atlanta...
...bubble-when the pressure on the inside of the car equaled that on the outside. Kliphuis slowly turned the door handle, which now opened easily, shot through the opening and surfaced. "You have to persuade the pupils to wait for the bubble and not panic," explained Teacher Herman Vos. "That's all there...
Still these areas are undeniably in need of aid and the United States, Herman Talmadge to the contrary notwithstanding, is in a position to offer it. But America cannot be expected to react cordially when a nation she has tried to help turns on her. Her natural instinct is to cut off the aid, an action damaging to both nations...
...final moments of the half, however, Carl Belz and his brother Herman returned to life to net eight points in a row and thereby bring the Tigers to within one point as the buzzer sounded...
...Secretary Charles Brannan (now general counsel of the left-wing Farmers Union). Under that scheme, the farmer would sell his crops on the free market, and the Federal Government would send him periodic checks to make up the difference between market prices and support prices. Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge is sponsoring a Brannan-type measure to cover the six "basics" (wheat, corn, cotton, rice, peanuts, tobacco), and Minnesota's Humphrey is working on a broader farm bill that will include some Brannan direct payment gimmicks...