Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Malone of Manhattan, as go-betweens (TIME, Dec. 19). Indignation flared last week when the names of the four Senators were published-Borah of Idaho (chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee), LaFollette of Wisconsin (youngest Senator, upright Progressive), Norris of Nebraska (chairman of the Judiciary Committee) and Heflin of Alabama (who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope). Indignation flamed when Publisher Hearst admitted that he had given none of these Senators a chance to deny knowledge of the alleged efforts by Mexico to bribe them. Publisher Hearst admitted that he himself had not for an instant believed the Senators...
...Democratic attack was blunted by Maryland's crotchety Senator Bruce, who bumbled repetitiously, and by Alabama's astounding Heflin, who bawled like a sick steer about the wicked plutocracy...
...most important development in our business of recent years was the opening this fall of cheese factories in the South. We now have eight factories in operation there and have five more under construction. These factories will be scattered across the South from Bristol, Va., through Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, to Wichita Falls...
...shook hands with the most important-looking one. Swart Curtis of Kansas is most important because, from his quiet aisle seat in the back row, he leads the majority party. Most-important-looking, a veritable redundancy in statesman-hood with his elephantine frame, florid face and canary waistcoat, is Alabama's Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope...
...Lorillard Co., manufacturers of the new cigaret "Old Gold," stopped a moment last week to examine how their business was going. Only in April, 1926, did they begin to sell "Old Golds." That was in New England. Soon they promoted a sales compaign in Georgia, Florida and Alabama, then successively in California, Chicago, New York, and finally over the entire country...