Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Georgia was dropped from respectable academic society after gallus-snapping Governor Eugene Talmadge had 1) packed the Georgia Board of Regents with political stooges; 2) made himself a member of the board; 3) fired Dean Walter D. Cocking (of the university's College of Education), President Marvin S. Pittman (of Georgia State Teachers College) and others because they were "furriners" (Pittman is Mississippi-born, Cocking Iowa-born) and alleged "nigger-lovers...
Governor Arnall at once appointed new regents, significantly including two-time regent Marion Smith, who had been fired by both Governor E. D. Rivers and Governor Talmadge for political reasons. The new regents last week voted to restore both Cocking and Pittman to their jobs. Cocking prefers to stay in Washington as Federal Security Agency consultant. Pittman returns to Georgia this week...
...professor, who has been Nevada's lone Representative since 1933, has worked hard in committee on naval appropriations, has voted with the Administration on practically everything except farm and trade measures which would affect his cattle-growing constituency. Balding, husky-throated James Scrugham will take the late Key Pittman's place in the Senate...
Young (36) Senator Berkeley Lloyd Bunker of Nevada is a serious Mormon ex-Bishop who looks like Tyrone Power and is more often seen than heard on the floor of the Senate. Since he took the late silver Senator Key Pittman's place two years ago, he has made the headlines on only one subject: Nevada's huge Government-financed magnesium plant, world's largest (rated capacity: 112,000,000 Ib. a year, 3½-times U.S. output last year), which went into production last month...
...there convened a special meeting of the board. Purpose: a last desperate effort to save Georgia's academic reputation. The regents hurriedly voted to rehire two educators they had previously voted to fire at the behest of Governor Eugene Talmadge (Dr. Walter D. Cocking and Dr. Marvin S. Pittman-TIME, July 21; July 28), then let Regent Robert resume his trip...