Word: ala
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mobile, Ala., Mayor Walker did not leave his train. He had canceled an engagement to speak when he heard that politicians hostile to Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith were planning to put him in a private home instead of a theatre...
...describe Candidate Smith, talk about Tolerance and "hope for the best at Houston." Mobile, Ala., threatened to waylay the Walker train if he did not stop there. Other eager cities were Winston-Salem, Montgomery, Birmingham. In New York, Candidate Smith pursued his policy of prayerful silence, hoping that Northern Negroes would understand why none of their race can be taken to Houston as delegates; hoping that the South will not mind if National Democratic Chair-man Clem L. Shaver should be ousted and replaced by Mayor Frank Hague of Jer sey City; hoping people noticed, last week, that John William...
...Claudel with two young men, one black-haired, sleek and wiry, the other burlier, rougher of hair, braver of necktie. They were the far-flown Lindberghs of France, Lieutenant Dieudonne* Costes and Lieut.-Commander Joseph Lebrix, just in from Paris via Africa, South America, Mexico, New Orleans and Montgomery, Ala. They had covered 22,843 mi. and, after handshaking and photography on the South Lawn, they soon hopped off again for Manhattan, whence they thought they might fly to San Francisco before going home. Said Flier Lebrix: "We do not want to go back to Paris by plane, because Lindbergh...
Forty-seven years ago, in June, Helen Adams Keller was born, at Tuscumbia, Ala. For a year and a half she was a healthy and good natured little absurdity; then, in her second winter, some jealous deity reached out his hand toward Helen Keller. She had an illness, "acute congestion of the stomach and brain"; afterward she was as deaf and as blind as an idol. For five years, "a peevish, unmanageable little animal," she squirmed in the horror of an endless gloom. Then the wise fingers of Anne Sullivan Macy, tracing with infinite patience signs and symbols upon...
...Johnston B. Campbell, long a railroad lawyer in Duluth and Spokane. Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman, who dissented vigorously and voluminously from the St. Paul decision, is a product of Amherst and the Massachusetts public service commission. Richard V. Taylor, oldest Commissioner, 68, was once (1921) elected Mayor of Mobile, Ala., where he was a railroad official. Commissioner Frank McManamy is a workaday railroader out of Michigan who helped William Gibbs McAdoo run trains during...