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While some people in Statesboro supported Governor Talmadge's efforts to oust Marvin Pittman, he had many ardent supporters. One of these was Bulloch Times editor D. B. Turner, known locally as "Uncle Dave." The poem to the left was penned by Turner in response to Talmadge's assertion that he was trying to protect Georgia's system of higher education from the influence of "foreigners." (Marvin Pittman was born and raised in the faroff land of Mississippi, while Walter Cocking was a native of Iowa; both Pittman and Cocking had degrees from New York's Columbia University.) This poem appeared on page 4 of the July 24, 1941 issue of the Bulloch Times, above an editorial concerning the July 14 hearing before the Regents at which Pittman was fired. |