Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After two weeks in office, young Governor Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge still held his favored position on the neck of state. But the constitutionality of his succession was far from settled. Lieut. Governor Melvin E. Thompson, who called himself governor and acted like one, kept crying that Hummon was a fraud...
...thousand students from eight Georgia colleges marched on the capitol, hanged Hummon in effigy, and bayed from the street outside. And the state assembly lagged in carrying out Hummon's orders for a white primary bill; so many of his legislative backers left town one day that Thompson's minority was almost able to vote a long recess...
...installed in the governor's mansion in his pappy's place. Neither had it seen anything like the comic opera alarums & excursions which followed it. During the week Georgia had endured not one but three governors. Both retiring Governor Ellis Gibbs Arnall and Lieut. Governor Melvin E. Thompson, once Arnall's executive secretary, had set up governments-in-exile. And Georgia had been all but inundated in a flow of tobacco juice and horrible verbiage...
Almost everyone else in Georgia was confused. Many a citizen believed that glib, liberal Ellis Arnall should just continue in office. Others, including Arnall himself, thought Melvin Thompson should assume...
When legislators began arriving in Atlanta for the election session, Harris set up headquarters on the 14th floor of the Henry Grady Hotel, began plying them with bourbon, cigars, veiled threats and glittering promises. Alarmed, the Arnall-Thompson forces followed suit, began an equally rough electioneering campaign. Wild rumors floated through the hotel lobby. The most titillating: blocks of six votes for Hummon were fetching...