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...soon became State School Supervisor. Last autumn "Alex" was also put in charge of WPA Project No. 1744, in which a number of idle girls were employed gathering public school records for the past 15 years. Last month when the anti-Roosevelt Congress of "Goober Democrats" gathered at Macon (TIME, Feb. 10), on each & every seat lay a copy of The Georgia Woman's World, a four-page throw-away devoted largely to photographs of President & Mrs. Roosevelt consorting with Negroes. Promptly the local WTAdministration announced that Brother Alexander Howell had used WPA labor to wrap and mail copies...
Stormed Brother Hugh Howell: "Within a few hours of the moment I nominated Eugene Talmadge for President [at the Macon convention], the wheels were set in motion to hang something-anything- on Georgia opponents of the National Administration. My wife was called on by Federal tax experts and made to show every check stub from 1933. They hoped to make a tax-evasion charge against me. Then they went after my brother. ... If you don't bow down and worship the Wallaces, the Tugwells and the Frankfurters, they want to put you in the penitentiary...
...Georgia Governor Talmadge howled "conspiracy" when the two radio chains declined to broadcast the convention of his anti-New Deal "Constitutional Democrats" scheduled to meet in Macon...
...shines so pretty. The purtes thang. . . . Hush, son, you talkin like a fool. Hush now, son, old boy. . . . Pore old Capm man. Pore old hoppin and cussin rascal. Make bricks all summer. . . . And, Heavenly Father, who art up yonder, all we got now is bricks. Mom and Violet and Macon and Big Sister and me squattin in corners munchin a brick apiece. Not eem gravy or sweetenin either. . . . Hello, Tooter. How you? . . . Oh, kissin runs in our family. . . . Hello, Shackle. Hidy-do, good-lookin. How you? Oh, I'm all right, thank-you-mam. . . . Pete won't care...
Engaged. Lieutenant Commander Herbert Victor ("Doc") Wiley, 43, longtime U. S. Navy airship officer, commander of the Macon when it crashed (TIME, Feb. 25), one of three survivors of the Akron disaster (TIME, April 10, 1933); and Charlotte Mayfield Weeden, San Francisco divorcee...