Word: tarver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME'S report on Albany, Ga. was a case history of what may happen to a quiet Southern town in wartime. As TIME'S mail from Albany testified, the facts were as reported. Albany's Sheriff O. Fort Tarver, at the request of the War Department, has since ordered the red-light district closed...
This neat bit of doggerel by Jack Tarver (Macon Telegraph) passed from mouth to mouth in Georgia last week. But to no avail: Governor Gene Talmadge, who has taken his bounden oath to drive all foreigners* out of the Cracker State, won his first victory and expelled a "foreigner," Iowa-born Walter Cocking, dean of the College of Education at the University of Georgia. Talmadge charge: that Cocking dared to hope that white and Negro teachers might study together at a graduate school (still in the idea stage) proposed near Athens (Ga.). Ten of the State's 15 regents...
...went the CCC appropriation, after debate in which Georgia's "Jedge" Malcolm Tarver revealed, too late, that a legal technicality would prevent spending the extra funds. Not to be dissuaded by such a trifle, the romping House appropriated the unusable $50,000,000 anyway...