Word: woodfin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs: Budget Director Harold Smith, who talked about cutting non-military expenses; Mayor the Reverend Mr. Woodfin G. Harry, who made a speech; the Warm Springs Women's Club, which sang;* pretty, yellow-headed Patient Ann Smithers, age six, who won the right to sit at the President's table at the Thanksgiving dinner, gnawed a drumstick despite the fact that her baby teeth are falling out; the Georgia Congressional delegation, minus Senator George, who withstood the New Deal's purge. "There was no invitation for me to go," explained Senator George...
...Henry Woodfin Grady, eloquent editor of the Atlanta Constitution in the 1880s, was the first great promoter of an "industrial South." Day after death cut short his campaign at 39-December 23, 1889-a boy was born to the poor but genteel Weaver family in Eatonton, Ga. Like many another Southern family, they named their child Henry Grady. Today Promoter Henry Woodfin Grady's vision of an industrial South is finally approaching reality and Henry Grady Weaver is chief promoter of a new industrial concept. He is head of the Customer Research Staff of General Motors Corp...
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...five-acre plot on fashionable Peachtree Street, to his place as the city's favorite after-dinner speaker. There with solemn face he will tell innumerable stories, never repeating himself, about how he is held down by his wife "Gussie,"?daughter of the late great Editor Henry Woodfin Grady of the Atlanta Constitution, burier of the bloody shirt, prophet of the "New South." There his friends will again remind him that he looks like Andy Gump; there he will play golf (very creditably) with Bobby Jones. There he will again make quips like the one made in the showers...
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