Word: sabyllia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before Georgia's Democrats went to their polls last week to vote in the next-to-last of Franklin Roosevelt's historic Purge primaries, the Purge candidate for Senator, sober-sided U. S. District Attorney Lawrence Sabyllia Camp of Atlanta, received two last-minute encouragements: the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee declared in Washington that there had been nothing improper about the discharge "for political activities" (against Mr. Camp) of Edgar Dunlap as Atlanta counsel for RFC (TIME, Aug. 29); and the fourth man in the race, Lawyer William G. McRae of Atlanta, withdrew, urging his supporters...
...pick puny opponents for their own party's candidates to beat. As in Idaho, it would be "immoral" for Republicans in Maryland to help his enemy Senator Tydings defeat his friend Representative Lewis;-* and for Republicans in Georgia to help his enemy Senator George defeat his friend Lawrence Sabyllia Camp...
...District Attorney Lawrence Sabyllia Camp, the Roosevelt candidate set up to purge Senator George, attacks his adversary as a tool of Georgia's utility and railroad companies, a stooge of northern Republicans. Last week this last charge was made more awful when James W. Arnold. Republican National Committeeman from Georgia, urged all Georgia Republicans to jump into the Democratic primary for Senator George and "save this country." There is no Republican candidate for the Senate this year, and 36.942 Republicans (12% of the electorate) voted in Georgia...
...like a summer thunderstorm was the question: what would Franklin Roosevelt do now about his purge of the Democratic Party? Especially, what would he do about Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, on whom Roosevelt lieutenants had sicked as an opponent in next month's primary Lawrence Sabyllia Camp, Georgia's onetime Attorney General, now a Roosevelt-appointed U. S. District Attorney...
Franklin Roosevelt did not keep reporters waiting long. His swiftness caught them off guard. To a luncheon at the Warm Springs Foundation for paralysis patients, mostly children, came Lawrence Sabyllia Camp. To the surprise of even his intimates, Franklin Roosevelt arose and introduced Mr. Camp as a "gentleman who I hope will be the next Senator from this State...
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