Word: weevils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ballots & Boll Weevils. Gene Talmadge had long followed the career of Georgia's mellifluous, rabble-rousing Senator Tom Watson. Gene approved of Watson's Populist movement and its appeal to country voters, and set out along the Watson trail to accomplish similar triumphs. The Georgia farmers of the 1920s were being battered by the boll weevil, would soon be battered harder by the Depression. Gene established himself as their champion. He filed for state commissioner of agriculture in the 1926 election, swept out a corrupt incumbent. When he could spare time, Herman helped by tacking up posters...
...land of the bell weevil everything else may be decadent, but mammy teaches her yung'uns to play the best lacrosse in the world. When Bruce Munro takes a 20-man squad for a six day tour of the South next week it will be only slightly less ambitious than a two-week barnstorming tour of the Big Ten by Lloyd Jordan and fifteen of his football players...
Said the Globe and Mail columnist in an appropriate final word: "Spare us any more of these symbols which evoke . . . religious bigotry, boll-weevil decadence and depraved mumbo jumbo...
...saves his true longing for the South, "the land of the boll weevil, where the laws are medieval," And he whines, "I want to go back to Swance, Where pellagra makes you scrawny," and then he swears, "Old times there are not forgotten, Whoppin' slaves and sellin' cotton...
...Weevil's Chance. Some of the biggest stars in the Southern Democrat sky-Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, South Carolina's Governor James Byrnes, Texas' Governor Allan Shivers, Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge and Senator Walter George-promptly came out for Russell. All of them know that, at the moment, he has about as much chance of being nominated as a boll weevil has of winning a popularity contest at a cotton planters' picnic. Then what are they trying...