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Just eight days after Louisiana sent Huey Long's snub-faced son Russell to the U.S. Senate, Georgia voters triumphantly revived a political dynasty of their own. Trooping to the polls under a sizzling sun, they elected tobacco-chewing, red-gallused Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge, 35, to fill the last two years of tobacco-chewing, red-gallused Ol' Gene's term as governor. It was like old times again...
...election night drunken wool-hatters and their blowzy, sweating women careened down the corridors of Atlanta's Ansley Hotel, howling and whooping. In Room 723, Hummon and his handsome second wife, Betty, listened to the returns. As the results from the back counties came in, they told the story. By midnight Hummon had an unbeatable lead over Acting Governor Melvin Thompson (who had prevented Hummon from taking over by force 19 months...
...Herman Talmadge hitched himself to the same pair of red suspenders his late pappy Gene wore as a political trademark, pitched his "white supremacy" campaign for governor on a new note of sweet reasonableness: "Segregation is best for the white man and best for the colored man." This week "Hummon" had to give up his speechmaking temporarily. In an auto crash near Dublin, Ga., he suffered a cut mouth...
Everybody in Georgia-except Hummon's "wool-hat" boys-was relieved that the comic opera was over. But the respite would not last long. Hummon was sure to try a comeback...
...first official act was to void the appointment of 21 state officers installed by Hummon. Then he began looking over the laws, including the white-primary bill, which Hummon had got the legislature to pass. When it was rumored that M. E. might veto the white-primary bill, the word got to the legislature. At week's end, the legislators quietly adjourned the session without passing the 3% sales-tax bill that would pay for M. E.'s road, hospital, education and old-age benefit program. A new legislature would not convene until after the general election...