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...rank when he became the Navy's Director of Public Relations in 1945, Annapolisman Miller has behind him 20 years of naval flying, four books on aviation. No armchair officer until he became the Navy's pressagent, able, handsome "Min" Miller squeaked through both the Akron and Macon disasters in the '30s, was both flying and deck officer before the Navy discovered that he had a way with publicity...
...ROBERT W. MCALLISTER Macon...
...rate on a carload of work clothes from Macon to Chicago (819 miles) is $1.56 per 100 pounds v. only $1.12 from Philadelphia to Chicago (816 miles). Other Georgia rates are just...
...started in the Senator's home town, Lynchburg. There, Dr. Robert Douthat Meade, professor of history at Randolph-Macon Women's College, had written an article discussing Carter Glass's long absence from the Senate, pointing out that this left Virginia with only half its proper representation. When the last measured sentence had been written, Dr. Meade sent off copies of the article, for sale, to newspapers throughout Virginia...
...column ("As Roosevelt Sees It") was short-lived, ran just eight days in the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph in April and May, 1925. Franklin Roosevelt, then at Warm Springs, wrote the pieces to fill in for his friend Thomas W. Loyless, the Telegraph's regular columnist. More often than not, his style was playfully folksy. Sample: "It sure is time to get another Democratic Administration." But in one solid column, Franklin Roosevelt objected vigorously to the way the 1925 Navy maneuvers in the Pacific were announced by the Coolidge Administration. Wrote he: "It is hardly tactful ... to give . . . the impression...