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ALFRED FLETCHER Atlanta, Ga...
...Lawrence Wood Robert Jr. was a Monticello, Ga. boy who studied at Georgia Tech, became a construction engineer. Always known as "Chip" Robert (because his father was "Wood" Robert), he set up his own firm in 1917, devoted himself to the task of industrializing the South. In the 23 years since then, Robert & Co. has done over $500,000,000 worth of business, designing textile mills and schools, putting up public buildings...
...Chip Robert met Franklin Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga. In 1932, Chip Robert met Jim Farley at the Dem ocratic Convention in Chicago. In 1933, when Franklin Roosevelt went to Washington, Chip Robert got a job as assistant to Secretary of the Treasury William Woodin in charge of public works...
...drowsy day in 1895 Catherine Evans, a farm girl from Dalton, Ga., journeyed back into the hills to visit a cousin. There she saw a pair of family-heirloom "candlewick" bedspreads, the handsomest bedspreads she had seen in all her born days. Back she went to Dalton. learned to make them herself. Soon hardly a wedding anywhere around was complete unless the bride got one of Catherine Evans' bedspreads...
...Atlanta, Ga...