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...Wichita, Kans. last week, 26 of the best sand-lot teams in the country, the winners of district, State and regional contests, batted it out under floodlights for the U. S. semi-pro championship. After a two-week round robin, the Buford (Ga.) Bona Allens, who came to the tournament with a record of 96 victories in 112 games this season, went home with a purse of $5,000 and the national title...
Marietta, Ga. was visited by a plague of martins. The city council ordered $50 worth of owls (several dozen) in crates from Florida. By mistake they were sent to Marietta, Ohio. By the time they finally arrived in Marietta, Ga., the martins had migrated south...
...tanned, rugged-looking President who returned to the U. S. last week at Pensacola and proceeded at once to his "second home" at Warm Springs, Ga., was watched intently by the correspondents whose daily duty it is to report his words and deeds. Hanging in the air like a summer thunderstorm was the question: what would Franklin Roosevelt do now about his purge of the Democratic Party? Especially, what would he do about Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, on whom Roosevelt lieutenants had sicked as an opponent in next month's primary Lawrence Sabyllia Camp, Georgia...
Next day at Athens, Ga., accepting an honorary LL.D. from the University of Georgia, Franklin Roosevelt eschewed politics except to say that Georgia "really does not believe either in demagoguery or feudalism dressed up in Democratic clothes." He saved his full thunder-blast for that afternoon at Barnesville, Ga., where he was to throw the switch on a new REA project. Barnesville's population of 3,000 swelled to 30,000 to hear him. On the speakers' platform at his side were Senator George and Candidate Camp. When Franklin Roosevelt began to speak, all present recognized a significant...
...Southern newspaper reactions to Franklin Roosevelt's "Purge" act against Senator Walter George last week at Barnesville, Ga. were chiefly adverse. The Atlanta Constitution snorted: "He would turn the United States Senate into a gathering of 96 Charley McCarthys with himself as the sole Edgar Bergen to pull the strings and supply the vocalisms." Atlanta Journal: "Great is the President's prestige, and great the admiration in which Georgians hold him. But assuredly he cannot do their thinking for them." Charlotte News: "The thing is, in its practical aspect, a desperate and precarious gamble. . . . If the President wins...