Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Donald L. Fowler, executive director of the South Carolina Democrats, will speak on "New Southern Politics and the 1968 Elections" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Lowell House JCR as part of the Lowell Ford Speakers Program...
Frances L. Ansley '69, co-chairman of SDS, read with a mock Southern accent from an interview with a Mississippi Power director. The director admitted that his firm hired very few "colored folks...
...John's of New York scared Davidson, the Southern Conference Champion, before succumbing...
Lane's fellow bankers may frown on such flamboyance, but they can only marvel at his accomplishments. In 21 years as president of Georgia's Citizens & Southern National Bank, he has certified himself not only as a leading innovator in U.S. banking, but also as Atlanta's most colorful civic leader. Under his command, Citizens & Southern has grown into the biggest bank (assets: $1.3 billion) in the Deep South, and Lane restlessly continues to expand its operations both inside Georgia and out. This week, for example, he plans to fly to the Caribbean for the formal opening...
...eccentricities, Lane is a third-generation banker whose father was Citizens & Southern's longtime president. Lane himself joined the bank as a clerk after his graduation from Yale in 1934, soon found that the Depression had left Atlanta's banking community "old and tired." Churning with fresh ideas, he rose quickly through the ranks, becoming a first vice president in 1939. When Lane, still only 34, moved up to president in 1946 (his father had died the year before), he took over a bank that was lagging far behind Atlanta's First National, the city...