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...week was touched off by word from a meeting of the Southern University Conference (41 leading colleges of the South). Meeting in Birmingham, Ala. to ponder Georgia's grievances against its Governor, representatives of the other colleges found a clearly evident case of political interference: Talmadge's ouster of University of Georgia's Dean Walter D. Cocking on the charge (denied) that the dean had advocated coeducation of Negroes and whites (TIME, July 28). Though the Governor himself showed up to harangue the conferees, the Conference dropped Georgia without a dissenting vote...
Pending in U.S. courts was a suit by the Philadelphia local challenging its ouster as contrary to the Federation's constitution. But the ousted groups arrived in Detroit in a conciliatory mood, prepared to eat large quantities of crow. They offered to drop their suit, promised to wrangle no more. Federationists overwhelmingly refused to seat them, cheered tumultuously when President George S. Counts cried: "We are extremely fortunate at this juncture that we have had the courage to do a job that should have been done years ago. ... If Stalin should make peace with Hitler tomorrow, as he might...
...there been such clownish witch-hunting as went on in Georgia last week. Cigar-chewing, red-suspendered Gene Talmadge ran amok through Georgia colleges, chasing furriners (i.e. non-Georgians) and Negro-befrienders. "There was a lynching in . . . the Capitol of Georgia Monday," said the Atlanta Journal, describing the ouster of Walter Dewey Cocking as dean of University of Georgia's College of Education (TIME, July 21). At week's end the Governor had knocked out two more important Georgia educators and provoked serious retaliation...
A.F.T. had polled its 28,000 members on whether the New York City Teachers Union and College Teachers Union, and the Federation's Philadelphia local, all accused of being Red-led, should have their charters revoked. The vote, counted last weekend, was about 11-to-8.5 for ouster of all three. Outside New York and Philadelphia, A.F.T. members voted 4-to-1 against the locals...
Disputing the referendum's legality, officers of the New York City locals said they would challenge their ouster at the Federation's convention in Detroit in August, perhaps in the courts as well. But the Federation was ready to charter new anti-Stalinist locals in their place...