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...Akron and Macon plopped into the sea. Of the large rigid airships built since the War only those of Germany have been successful-the Los Angeles, now in retirement at Lakehurst, the stalwart old Graf Zeppelin, still shuttling the South Atlantic after carrying some 13,000 passengers without harm, and the new Hindenburg, which runs as safely on the same route...
That night, having rested less than three days from his Drought trip, the President entrained for the South. To counteract Gene Talmadge's anti-Roosevelt convention of "Goober Democrats" at Macon last winter, Southern New Dealers had for months been planning to demonstrate their loyalty at a "Green Pastures" rally in Charlotte, N. C. On his way to address it with a "nonpolitical" speech, President Roosevelt left his train at Knoxville, climbed into an open automobile and headed a caravan of Democratic Governors and Congressmen up a new 140-mile highway through Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Its woodsy...
...plotting to break up the Democratic Party. Russell played for all it was worth the revelation before the Senate lobby investigating committee that John J. Raskob and Pierre S. du Pont had paid $5,000 each to finance Governor Talmadge's convention of anti-Roosevelt "Goober Democrats" at Macon last winter (TIME, April 27). "Sure, I helped raise the taxes," cried the tax-raising Senator. "We raised 'em on Gene's friends, the Raskobs and the du Fonts and that...
Last week Candidates Russell and Talmadge seemed to be coming down the homestretch neck & neck. Georgia's Press was almost solidly against Talmadge, chief exceptions being the Savannah morning News and evening Press, which also sup ports Landon, and the vigorous, influential Macon Telegraph, whose able Publisher William Thomas Anderson has not forgot ten that Senator Russell kept his brother out of Macon's postmastership. Fiercest Talmadge opposition was from the Atlanta Constitution, which is still coasting along on the reputation the late great Henry Grady made for it in the last century. Says Talmadge: "You know...
...newest and largest lighter-than-air craft is the (1 Macon, 2 Los Angeles, 3 LZ-47, 4 Adolf Hitler, 5 Hindenburg...