STATES & CITIES: In Atlanta

STATES & CITIES

Five years ago James Lee Key, a tall, angular Atlanta lawyer who looks like a beardless Lincoln, was elected Mayor of Atlanta. Last week he was still Mayor after roundly trouncing an incongruous political combination of red-hot Drys and disgruntled Wet labor leaders. Atlantans refused to recall Mayor Key from office, by the record-breaking vote of 17,178 to 11,744.*

Mayor Key first got into trouble with prohibitors when, junketing through France with other U. S. mayors last spring, he publicly opined that Prohibition did not prohibit, was in fact an "abysmal failure." The Greater Atlanta Prohibition & Law Enforcement...

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