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With that, two reporters ran for the executive office to break the news of Lieut. Governor Melvin E. Thompson's court victory to narrow-eyed, young Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge, the "Pretender." Hummon looked dignified in a grey chalk-stripe suit and red tie, but when he heard the news he blurted: "What judges voted against me?" When the reporter shrugged, Hummon told his secretary to find out. Then he picked up the phone and snapped: "Get me Mrs. Talmadge...
...Before Hummon had finished telling his wife to start moving out of the executive mansion, his office was jammed with snorting, stomping Talmadge backers. Hulking Representative Jimmy Dykes, the ex-black-marketeer who had likened former Governor Ellis Arnall to a "hawg," bellowed: "We'll get a court of our own." Then, putting on his own boar-like dignity: "You know what MacArthur said -I shall return." Hummon just smiled. Within 15 minutes, he vacated the office -as he had said he would-and Georgia's 63-day fling at two-headed government was over...
Calm & Slow. In ruling Hummon out, the court had pooh-poohed his contention that it had no jurisdiction in the case. Georgia law, said the court, states plainly that the legislature may elect a governor only when no candidate has a majority. Gene Talmadge and Thompson, elected with him as lieutenant governor,. had had majorities in the November election. Thus, said the court, the legislature had had no legal grounds for electing Hummon, and Thompson, the ex-schoolteacher son of a tenant farmer, had every legal right to the governorship...
...free time to local universities-not excluding Atlanta University (for Negroes). Farmers get a daily hour (5:30-6:30 a.m.) of down-to-earth farm news, plus such extras as gifts of bred ewes to 4-H Clubbers. And with its parent paper (TIME, March 17), WSB watches "Hummon" Talmadge like a chicken hawk...
...Goodwin and Gregory, were still digging. They had received tips of vote-fixing in Cherokee County (55 votes had been added after the returns reached Atlanta). And they were poking around in Rockingham precinct (one of the two precincts in the state which gave Hummon, a write-in candidate, more votes than the regular Democratic nominee, ol' Gene). The Journal's Managing Editor William Kirkpatrick contentedly indicated that he still had a few more firecrackers to shoot...