Word: okolona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beat the Horses." In 1933, "everybody who hadn't been anybody," the buoyant George writes, "was going into Government." George had drifted from a law practice in Okolona, Miss. into the hotel business, and had wound up in Washington. Like most of his friends, in 1929 he had gone broke ($500,000 in the red). But he liked Washington and he made a lot of friends. Franklin Roosevelt did not know him "from George Spelvin," but the President appointed him one of the three District Commissioners of Washington...