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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are 13 Atlantas in the U. S., but only one mattered last week.* Atlanta, Ga. was the place where Gone With the Wind opened (see p. 30); where Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh passed by and the Negroes said: "I seen 'em!"; where Banker Robert Strickland wept for Melanie and said: "By God, I'm not ashamed"; where young ladies in their grandmas' crinolines and young bucks in fawn vests and pantaloons skittered through Peachtree Street and Henry Grady Square at dawn; where old, old people remembered the Battle of Atlanta and Sherman and the flames...
Lawyer Alexander figured the project was an investment which would give the Masons 6% on their money. To Pearl it was a place where it wouldn't rain right in on Negroes huddled around a kitchen stove. They named it Frances Plaza, after their daughter. But Pearl was convinced that God, not Frances, really picked the ticket...
...Sandler's place last week stood tall, 53-year-old Christian E. Günther, one of Sweden's smoothest diplomatists. Onetime Minister to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, he has more recently served as Sweden's envoy to Norway. A playwright, novelist and poet, Foreign Minister Günther belongs to no political party, like all good diplomats has long cultivated the habit of keeping his mouth shut and his ears open. Unlike Mr. Sandier, he can scarcely be accused of being for or against anybody...
Summarizing the work of the third annual Guardian Conference, which took place Friday and Saturday, Enno R. Hobbing '40, president of the Guardian, declared, "We think that the problems of propaganda and the horizons of the experts and students attending have been broadened...
...high point of the whole conference was reached as a general outlook on the whole subject of propaganda in the modern world was taken. I. A. Richards, University lecturer, and Gordon W. Allport '19, associate professor of psychology, gave what they considered a proper definition of propaganda and its place in education...