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...Candidate Linder and his thundering bombast at Atlanta's Confederate Memorial Day ceremonies [TIME, May 10]: My forebears came to Georgia from Virginia, having emigrated from England about 1650 ... I am a "real" Southerner-a statement I make with some pride-and in the next breath I say I am embarrassed and saddened by the words and actions of individuals like Tom Linder. I offer my poor apology for them to the rest of our good Americans-Northern, Western, or wherever else they...
Sweating in the hot sunshine, Linder pointed toward heaven and let the Shenandoah of cliches roll. "Four score and nine years ago, the Men in Grey ceased to resist oppression on the battlefield . . . Four score and nine times Old Father Time has completed his yearly cycle since the last bugle call was sounded and the last rebel yell was heard fighting under the Stars and Bars . . . Four score and nine times the shrinking violets have timidly raised their heads from their winter hiding place to gladden the hearts of mankind. The rosebuds have sprung into new life and flaunted their...
...Orator Linder was so pleased with his speech that he bought time on three local radio stations for recorded broadcasts and a black-bordered ad in the Atlanta Constitution to spread the word. Said Herman Talmadge: "Tom would not be spending his money unless he was figuring on being a candidate...
Sure enough, this week Shrinking Violet Linder raised his head and said that he would run for governor of Georgia...
...Herman, whose father, the late Governor Eugene Talmadge, was agriculture commissioner for six years before he became governor, would like to swap jobs with Linder, take over the influential Agriculture Department until a Senate seat becomes available...