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Georgia's legislature snuffled and snapped through its appointed rounds. It really sat up when the word was passed that "Hummon wants this." In just 41 of the 70 days allotted to it, the state's complacent assembly gave crafty, cocky Governor Herman Eugene Talmadge almost everything he wanted. Grumped an editorialist last week in the Hummon-hating Atlanta Journal: "Thank Heaven, I still have my liver and lights." The Atlanta Constitution, somewhat friendlier to Hummon, drew a deep breath and said: "On the whole the legislature did a good...
...What He Wanted. But had it? Like his daddy, the late, loud Gene, who purposefully played the peckerwood, Hummon stood for 1) keeping "the Nigras" in their place, 2) keeping the wool-hat back-country control over the shoe-wearing big-city majority, 3) perpetuating in office the Talmadge dynasty, its heirs and assigns. That's what he wanted and that's what...
...minute, 1949 model of the old Southern political boss, Hummon had shown a marked talent for exploiting credulity, prejudice and ignorance without all of the stage props which old Gene needed. Once in office he snapped no red galluses. He was as subdued as a Talmadge could be. He steered an endless stream of visitors in & out of his crowded office with an efficiency that Tom Dewey could admire, greeting visitors with a fast-fading smile...
Only twice did the cold creep into Truman's manner. When Georgia's Governor "Hummon" Talmadge rode past, the President pointedly turned his back to talk to a companion. And when South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrats' candidate for President, doffed his hat in salute, Harry Truman stared him coldly in the eye, his mouth a thin, grim line...
...Hummon Steps In. Thus harassed, Georgia's newly inaugurated Governor Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge acted fast. On his orders, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation moved in with dispatch. Four days later it had its own answer to who killed Robert Mallard. As she left her husband's funeral services, Mrs. Mallard was arrested by the G.B.I. on a charge of murder. Blandly, the arresting officer, Lieut. William E. McDuffie, announced: "It is our belief that they [the Klan] are not guilty of shooting Mallard." But he gave no basis to reporters for charging Mrs. Mallard. Dumfounded and hysterical...