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...quite true to say that New York simply loved him. But New York was certainly impressed by Ellis Arnall. He had retired from Georgia's governor ship, amid glory and catcalls, leaving Herman Talmadge, the man he called The Pretender, to exercise an uncertain reign. What were Mr. Arnall's plans now? He planned to stump the 48 states with a message for the nation. Why all 48? "I find so many delightful people every where," declaimed the little ex-governor of Georgia. "I find it a good idea to meet them...
...Other Shore. It had certainly been a crowded month for Ellis Arnall. He had made a last gesture of splendid defiance toward Herman Talmadge. He had posed for photographers, lower lip outthrust, round face fixed in a fighting expression...
After two weeks in office, young Governor Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge still held his favored position on the neck of state. But the constitutionality of his succession was far from settled. Lieut. Governor Melvin E. Thompson, who called himself governor and acted like one, kept crying that Hummon was a fraud...
...smell of violence; its prophets were demagogues like "Tom Tom" Heflin, Huey Long, Senator Bilbo and the late governor-elect of Georgia, turkey-necked "Old Gene" Talmadge. Last week it got a new one-at least temporarily. Old Gene's heavy-lidded, 33-year-old son Herman (pronounced Hummon) claimed that he was now the governor of Georgia...
ATLANTA, January 19--Herman Talmadge, whose claim to governorship of Georgia is currently challenged by M. E. Thompson, declared tonight that he would continue to hold the office and would "not yield to any threat or bow to force...