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...heels of the dean's letter came announcement from the Cathedral of his successor, quietly chosen long ago to bring new blood to the white fane on Washington's Mount St. Alban-Rev. Dr. Noble Cilley Powell of Baltimore. Alabama-born 45 years ago, handsome Noble Powell was an entomologist, investigating the boll weevil for the Department of Agriculture, before he went to the Uni-versity of Virginia and Virginia Theological Seminary, became a priest in 1921. As rector of St. Paul's Memorial Church near Charlottesville and Episcopal chaplain at the university, he missionized among both...
...Tennessee's 50 colleges is the most informally-named in the U. S. and, according to its founder, the only one in the world where Greek and Hebrew are required subjects for students majoring in Religion - Bob Jones College in Cleveland. Alabama-born Bob Jones, a tall, husky Methodist who held his first service at 13 and was licensed to preach at 15, founded his institution a decade ago in northern Florida, planning it as a college for preserving the Bible and "the oldtime decencies" and still appealing to young people. He began with 132 students, confounded pedagogs...
...least two occasions TIME has referred to the oratorical gifts of young, Alabama-born Senator-elect Josh Lee of Oklahoma. I would call your attention to the eloquence of another Senator-elect who likewise is young and Alabama-born: Claude Pepper of Florida...
John Hunt Morgan, Alabama-born (1825), was a member of an aristocratic Kentucky family. At 21 he first saw action in the Mexican War, liked it so much that when he went home he founded the Lexington Rifles, which attracted all the young bloods in town. When the Civil War broke, Morgan and his "terrible men" were ready. Morgan was a regular officer, and took orders (when he felt like it) from his superiors, but the North persisted in regarding him as an irregular, capable of every atrocity from horse-stealing to killing the wounded. Biographer Swiggett says Morgan obeyed...
...malodorous evidence brought out at the trial dropped him to obscurity; resulted in the appointment of President Harding's Postmaster General Will H. Hays as public apologist for Hollywood. Died, Albert Russel Erskine, 62, president of Studebaker Corp.; by his own hand (pistol); in South Bend. Alabama-born, he quit school at 16, turned bookkeeper, climbed to fame up the long ladder of accountancy. As head auditor of American Cotton Co., he got his big chance when Yale & Towne (locks) asked him to peruse their books, promptly made him treasurer. In 1911 he went to Studebaker in the same...