Word: tallapoosa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grady Lafayette Evers, 38, pious, T-total Baptist storekeeper of Dadeville and candidate for tax collector of Tallapoosa County, Ala. the morning of March 23, 1938, was exciting. A candidate for Governor of Alabama was to speak in Dadeville, and Storekeeper Evers had thought of a way to advance his own candidacy. He ordered for distribution to the crowd 2,500 booklets of paper matches from Advance Match & Printing Corp. in Chicago. On each booklet he ordered printed...
...distributed to the milling crowds of politically excited citizens. . . . Midst the joyous shouting of the crowds and while flags were flying in the southern breeze, the Plaintiff and his loyal aides ambitiously distributed the match booklets to the spirited tempo of patriotic airs. . . . Gradually these staunch voters of Tallapoosa County so assembled had occasion to open their booklets of matches to light up their cheroots, and as each did so, the booklet was immediately and indignantly closed and concealed from the eyes of the womenfolk or younger persons thereabouts...
...think "Mrs. Driscoll's Day" [TIME, Jan. 27] the most interesting letter I have read in your Letters department in some time. I think she should have a divorce. J. R. HUTCHESON Judge Superior Courts, Tallapoosa Circuit Douglasville, Ga. Sirs: My hat's off to Mrs. Driscoll! "Her Day" is sure interesting reading but where would she get a publisher to tell it to the world? . . . What's in a name? Just a matter of a few thousand dollars-depending on what the name happens to be. ... (MRS.) AUGUSTA F. MOSTIN...
Georgia: malaria control in Dublin; clearing woodland in Cairo; converting a depot into a common house in Wrens; opening, clearing and straightening the channel of Tanyard Stream in Barnesville; a fertilizer plant in Catoosa County; repairs on court house in Donalsonville; paving sidewalk in Tallapoosa; sanitation pit project of 400 units in Cairo; renovation of school in Blakely; bridge in Thomson; road improvement in Trenton...
...Tallapoosa's racial clash produced reverberations outside Alabama. In New York the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which has been conducting a legal defense of the Scottsboro convicts denied that it was connected in any way with the Camp Hill affair. It charged that Communist agitators were deliberately "muddling the matter" and warned that their tactics to win Negroes to Communism were "the best means in the world" for getting the Scottsboro boys hanged or mobbed. The International Labor Defense, a Red organization which has been exploiting the Scottsboro case for political purposes, said the Camp...