Word: oles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...humming little chain of three California papers and five radio stations), had a bright little idea for making the drones work better. She had recorded music piped in: loud and animated in the composing room, soft and restful in the city room. One sour newsman, after hearing out Ole Buttermilk Sky, said it didn't do a thing for his writing...
...country counties, where ignorance and prejudice rule, and there is a Negro problem, Ole Gene [Talmadge] got his big votes; but in the city counties, where education and enlightenment reign, . [James] Carmichael piled up a huge vote...
...Ole Gene" had wangled himself back into the governorship by winning the Democratic gubernatorial primary was no puzzle to Georgians-even though his principal opponent, James V. Carmichael, had polled 314,421 popular votes to Gene's 305,777. The "Wild Man from Sugar Creek" had just exploited Georgia's county unit system of counting votes...
With that kind of setup, it was no particular trick for Ole Gene. Unworried by popular majorities, he bypassed the cities where Carmichael appealed to the voters (including Georgia's 650,000 adult Negroes belatedly enfranchised this year). He just concentrated on the farmers. Gene had always had the farmers right by their pet prejudices. Once more, he snapped his red galluses at them, borrowed chaws of cut plug from crowds, ranted about the Negro menace, the labor menace, the new carpetbaggers-and promised little but a return to normalcy, Georgia style...
That policy falls into three parts: 1) close friendship with the U.S., 2) opposition to Russian expansion, 3) gradual liquidation of the British Empire. Tories and Laborites alike can cooperate with the U.S. But Bevin, the proletarian, can speak up to Russia as Churchill, the aristocrat, could not. When "Ole Ernie" warns of the Soviet danger British workers listen. If the Tories said the same words, British workers would consider them more "imperialist bilge...