Word: pittman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearing over, the board voted 10-to-5 to fire not only Dean Cocking but "Furriner" (Mississippi-born) Marvin S. Pittman, president of Georgia State Teachers College and Georgia-born J. Curtis Dixon, vice chancellor of the State University system. Said Talmadge: "Dixon was just as much tied up with the Rosenwald Fund as Cocking was." Next day, with pixie logic, Talmadge chose as Cocking's successor a furriner from Maryland, Dr. Edwin Pusey, who is also a trustee of a Negro school in Georgia (Fort Valley) supported by Rosenwald Funds...
...commended and congratulated upon the excellent reporting on the career and death of Senator Key Pittman, of Nevada [TIME, Nov. 18]. In comparatively few words you managed to make a real flesh-&-blood personality, a true picture, of Nevada's most famous citizen...
Last week another Mormon went to the Senate. Nevada's Governor E. P. Carville (a Catholic) appointed to the seat of the late Key Pittman a 34-year-old L. D. S. bishop, Berkeley Lloyd Bunker, a Texaco filling-station operator of Las Vegas...
...campaign Key Pittman tired easily and often, returning many an evening worn out to his small suite-in Tonopah's five-story brick Mizpah Hotel. Four days before Election he was taken to the Washoe General Hospital, on Reno's outskirts. On Nov. 5 he was reelected, by 6,000 votes, over Republican Samuel Platt. But Key Pittman was dying. His heart was feeble. An oxygen tent kept life in him for several hours. Just after midnight, as Sunday began, he died...
Washington, with its eyes on the funeral of Key Pittman, waited to see what this full turn of the wheel would mean...