Word: marvin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranking aide and favorite brother of Georgia's Governor Marvin Griffin and as mayor of their home town of Bainbridge (pop. 7,562), cigar-chomping, lapel-grabbing Robert Alwyn ("Cheney") Griffin, 43, is at ease in almost any Georgia setting, from columned plantation to smoke-heavy hotel room. But last week Cheney Griffin suddenly discovered himself in a setting that made him ill at ease. Indicted on charges of accepting a $1,500 political bribe, Cheney taxied down to Atlanta's Fulton County jail, posted $2.500 bond, then skipped off to await his trial next month...
...beat, filed a weekly column called "Backstairs at the White House." Last week, after 17 years of covering U.S. Presidents, Smitty was back on his old Treasury beat, and before this week's press conference, it was up to his successor, Dayton Moore, 49, the A.P.'s Marvin Arrowsmith, 44, and I.N.S.'s Alvin Spivak, 30, to decide who would thank the President for the press...
Anxious to become a world seaport, Bainbridge, Ga. (pop. 7,562) enjoys two advantages: 1) it straddles the Flint River, 105 miles from the Gulf of Mexico; 2) it is the home town of Georgia's frog-voiced Governor S. (for Samuel) Marvin Griffin. Last week a state senate investigating committee complained that Bainbridge's home-town boy has been doing too much in trying to overcome nature's oversights. The Griffin administration has spent half a million dollars for a 400-ft. pier, a transit shed and sulphur unloading facilities. And along with brother Cheney Griffin...
...that is turning many a Dixie radical red with frustration. North Carolina's Luther Hodges was chairman of the 1957 Southern Governors Conference, engineered the election of Florida's LeRoy Collins as his successor -even though a nominating committee had already settled on Georgia's racist Marvin Griffin. Collins, in turn, was succeeded last year as chairman of the Southern Regional Education Board by Hodges. Last week Hodges worked another ploy. Planning their Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Raleigh, North Carolina Democrats planned to invite as main speaker a tub-thumping segregationist, possibly Georgia's Senator...
...thousands of viewers in the Los Angeles area, station KTTV's impromptu 90-minute crime show last week was better than the big networks' M Squad, Dragnet or Highway Patrol had ever been. Instead of Lee Marvin. Jack Webb or Broderick Crawford, they saw two real hooch-soaked hoods with six hostages as they held out in a tense siege by 150 real cops and FBI agents in an Inglewood dive just outside Los Angeles...