Word: marvin
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Something euphemistically called the Georgia Commission on Education was only a one-stenographer state agency charged with inventing anti-integration laws until Redneck Governor Marvin Griffin decided that it was meant for bigger things. To the unexploited office of commission executive secretary he appointed an ambitious, possum-shaped Atlanta lawyer named T.V. (for Truman Veran) Williams Jr., 26. Williams soon multiplied the commission staff by ten, moved into prominent quarters across the street from the state capitol. He talked the legislature into giving him the power of subpoena, plenty of money for a dreamy assortment of private-eye equipment-long...
...Harvard should receive full credit," Yale coach Marvin Stevens commented after the game, "for defeating a team which was supposed to be better than the Crimson. The game was a brilliant one, in which a great team...
Anchor to Windward. Before the Sports Center Authority undertook the tedious business of condemnation, O'Malley got up $5,000,000 as his share of the venture. He sold Ebbets Field to a real-estate operator named Marvin Kratter for $3,000,000, and signed a lease for the Dodgers to play there for three more years. He sold his Montreal farm club's park for $1,000,000, disposed of his Fort Worth park for another...
...delegation from southeastern Georgia's Appling County. About 20 years ago Appling County deeded almost 1,000 acres of land to the state for forestry experimentation; the delegation wanted 125 acres back for a golf course. The Georgia senate was agreeable; so was the house. So, too, was Marvin Griffin, who ultimately had to sign the bill. But according to the Fulton County grand jury indictment, Cheney took $1,500 to start the ink flowing in the governor's pen. The Appling County folks went in debt...
Cheney's indictment last week was only one difficulty facing the Griffins. Not only was the Constitution on their littered trail, but Marvin Griffin had stirred up a more dangerous foe. Aware that Georgia's strongman, U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge, had hand-picked Lieutenant Governor Ernest Vandiver as the next governor (TIME, Feb. 17), Griffin-who cannot succeed himself-nevertheless picked and began pushing his own nominee. In retaliation the Talmadge-dominated state senate ordered an investigation of the governor's administration. And if there are any political bodies buried around, the Talmadge fans will know where...