Word: alabama-born
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...Louis the city's 18 Presbyterian churches chose for their local moderator (highest office) the Rev. Alexander Hamilton Johnson, Alabama-born Negro pastor of small, spic & span McPheeters Presbyterian Church. Said Mr. Johnson: "I would rather not have had it. I did not seek it. I would rather seek humility...
...there. So had Senator Styles Bridges, Louisiana's Congressman James Morrison, a major general, an archduke, industrialists, and a host of other Washington characters, known & unknown. Host of the house on R Street was one James Porter Monroe, dour, bald, and effusive. Hostess was a Mrs. Eula Smith, Alabama-born, tall, sedate, aloof...
There is perhaps more quiet medicament for negrophobes in Margaret Walker's For My People than in any other book of Negro verse yet published. Poetess Walker, a 27-year-old, Alabama-born English teacher, avoids the callow literary posturing that is the curse of most Negro versifiers. In this, her first book, she writes with civilized simplicity and dignity about the humanity of her people. The effect, whether in her psalmlike lyrics, her stark ballads or her biting sonnets, is often solemn and beautiful, like a black frost in the deep South...
...world's sermonizing record is held by the Rev. James Jefferson Davis Hall, 79, a lively, white-goateed, Alabama-born Episcopalian...
...dark, gloomy Luis Muñoz Marin, president of Puerto Rico's Senate, paid a call at the White House, was ushered into the anteroom of Franklin Roosevelt's military aide, Alabama-born Edwin ("Pa") Watson...