Word: hartsfield
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...vote-53,187 to Smith's 21,153. And despite Smith's civil rights grandstanding, Allen won an overwhelming majority of the Negro vote. The small turnout bothered At lanta's political hierarchy not at all. It was, mused former (for 26 years) Mayor William B. Hartsfield, "indicative of a satisfied citizenry...
Then to the rescue came Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. and, more particularly, longtime (1937-61) former Mayor William Hartsfield, who took to the telephone to round up support for the dinner. "I had to do a little selling job," said Hartsfield. "I reminded them that the whole town gave Bobby Jones a parade when he won the four golf titles, and that they had turned out for Dot Kirby and, 35 years earlier, for Alexa Stirling when each won the women's national golf championship. I reminded them that they gave a big welcome to Atlanta...
...incidents, Berkeley, Calif, demonstrators filled supermarket carts with food, then abandoned them in the store, left perishables to spoil. Militants in New York City threatened to waste water by leaving their faucets open. Negroes entered a segregated Atlanta restaurant, urinated on the floor, drew from former Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield a stinging speech on the question: "Is Urination Nonviolent...
...also a town that honors its traditions without becoming mired in them. "The besetting sin of the South is worship of the South," says William Hartsfield, mayor of Atlanta from 1937 through 1961. "Strangely, many people in the South today worship the day that Margaret Mitchell said was gone with the wind. I say 'strangely' because few of them participated in those days. So many speak of magnolias and beautiful ladies and soft nights, and so many of them had only hookworm and poverty. We in Atlanta have been moving and getting somewhere over the years...
...waited a long time," Hartsfield said happily. Said Atlanta's present mayor, Ivan Allen Jr.: "It would be difficult to catalogue all the evils that have resulted from the system over the years. But from now on there are going to be big changes...