Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Muscle Shoals. The future of the $51,000,000 U. S. power plant at Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River in Alabama was as obscure as ever last week. In the Senate, the debate was on a resolution by Senator Norris providing that the U. S. keep the plant, operate it, sell the electricity to citizens for miles around. The Norris resolution also authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to use Muscle Shoals electricity in making nitrates for fertilizer, but the wording of the resolution reflected an opinion that synthetic fertilizer processes are too costly. In the House, contrarily, a committee...
...LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder, (Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1928. $2.50), it has all been said so well not to say often. One hundred and thirty thousand in four months, eleven thousand sold in England, hailed by a professor of English in the University of Alabama as a classic, not equalled since "Ethan Frome' and 'Jurgen,'" talked of, written about, sometimes read. The price of the first editions has already jumped to $20 thanks to the efforts of Messrs. Phelps and Hansen, Mr. Wilder, we learn, is still holding down his academic post at Lawrenceville Academy...
...remainder of the 15,660 votes were scattering. Senator Heflin of Alabama got one vote...
...Hill, the last negative speaker, showed the harshness of southern states toward the negro. In Alabama the penalty for "intermarriage or intermixture" is imprisonment for from two to seven years. "And the affirmative maintains that intermixing is desirable, when a lynching awaits such a marriage!" he said. "According to the constitutions of five southern states, a man with one-eighth negro blood is a negro...
...same time, received a package and a document from "The Kleagles of the Hooded Knight, Central Falls, R. I." The package looked very much like an encased violin, which the document said it was. But the ninety-sixth senator-Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope-was not deceived. Speedily he notified his colleagues that he had issued no invitation of any sort. Pointing at the package, with fearful, hoarse solemnity he said: "It may be a bomb, or worse! Some of my friends warned me that it might...