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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are 13 Atlantas in the U. S., but only one mattered last week.* Atlanta, Ga. was the place where Gone With the Wind opened (see p. 30); where Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh passed by and the Negroes said: "I seen 'em!"; where Banker Robert Strickland wept for Melanie and said: "By God, I'm not ashamed"; where young ladies in their grandmas' crinolines and young bucks in fawn vests and pantaloons skittered through Peachtree Street and Henry Grady Square at dawn; where old, old people remembered the Battle of Atlanta and Sherman and the flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Crossroad Town | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...General Sherman said: 'Madam, you got spunk'"). Last week Atlanta was more self-conscious of its present and its past than any other U. S. town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Crossroad Town | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...slums of South Philadelphia rushed well-wishers, curiosity-seekers, oil-well and gold-mine promoters. Police had to rope off their street. A man in Liberia wanted them to finance a bus line from Monrovia to the jungle. "All I ever wanted was my own home," Pearl shakily said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweepstakes | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Wizard of Oz books, Ben Jr., 6, new clothes. When they wanted fried chicken, they had fried chicken. But no diamond rings, no champagne, no bottle-busting, neck-breaking carnival for the Masons. Pearl had a better idea. "I always wanted to help out people of my color," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweepstakes | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Last week hot-tempered Mayor LaGuardia announced that he had fired hot-tempered Jim Kieran. "He called me a guinea* -----------," said the Little

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: He Called Me a Guinea | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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