Word: macon
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Albert's concept of his new job is thus in line with that of the strongest of his predecessors, men who felt fully capable of ruling the House?and, if necessary, filling a vacancy in the presidency if the Vice President, too, should die. The fifth Speaker, Nathaniel Macon, considered himself "the elect of the elect," while the 35th, Joseph Cannon, haughtily declined a dinner invitation from President Theodore Roosevelt because he was to be seated below the Attorney General. Albert has none of the dictatorial bent of Cannon, the eloquence and ambition of Henry Clay (who got the House...
...great many others. In Greenville, Miss., where attitudes tend to be more extreme than in the upper South, most of the city's 10,124 students moved quietly into schools that had been desegregated through a pairing plan drawn up by a local biracial commission. At Macon, Ga., all but 2,000 of the system's 33,000 children showed up for the opening of classes in once segregated schools. And in Houston, blacks and whites went to school together-while Mexican Americans, who resented being classified as white instead of "brown," stayed out in protest...
Georgia Governor Lester Maddox wanted to ride atop the train to prove its cargo safe. The mayor of Macon, Ga., Ronnie Thompson, has vowed to use force, if necessary, to keep it from passing through his city. A Pentagon spokesman insists that the chances of "catastrophe" are virtually zero, yet the Army is quietly stockpiling quantities of a lifesaving antidote along the proposed route. The British Foreign Office (representing the government of the Bahamas) has questioned the wisdom of the plan...
...South, until recently, the main concern was the use and abuse of the Confederate flag, and the Fourth of July was a Yankee nuisance that coincided with the fall of Vicksburg. Now, there is a new passion for the national symbol. Ronnie Thompson, the mayor of Macon, Ga., enlists the city fire department each day for a solemn flag-raising ceremony in front of city hall. Georgia's Lester Maddox, in the hospital with a kidney ailment, is embowered in red, white and blue floral arrangements...