Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Underwood of Alabama (a Kentuckian by birth), one of the abler men of his party, "sound and conservative," who is serving his final term in the Senate, having announced that he will retire next March, had been pressing for an amendment to the Senate rules such as has been favored by Vice President Dawes-an amendment which would require a vote on revenue and appropriation bills to be taken and debate to be shut off by majority petition, so that bills may not be talked to death by a vociferous minority...
...chief bids: 1) The bid of the Muscle Shoals Fertilizer Co. and Muscle Shoals Power Distributing Co, comes from a group of southern power companies of which the Alabama Power Co. is the chief. It provides for payment of $136,330,000 on the present dam No. 2 during the 50-year lease, or of $181,348,000 if dam No. 3 is also built. It allows the Government to take over the equipment in time of war. It guarantees 10,000 tons a year of nitrogen fertilizer in three years, 20,000 tons annually in six years...
...that the leaders are incompetent but that they are not competent enough. This is a year in which Senators and Representatives are elected. The Senators who this year come up for re-election were elected in 1920 in a Republican landslide. The Democrats among them are Underwood of Alabama, Caraway of Arkansas, Fletcher of Florida, George of Georgia, Broussard of Louisiana, Overman of North Carolina, Smith of South Carolina? all from the solid South. The Democrats have not a chance of losing one of their seats, but the Republicans have seats which may be lost to Democrats this year...
...states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi. North Carolina and South Carolina owe to British creditors repudiated debts, dating from the U.S. Civil War, to a total "with interest to date" of 50 million pounds ($250,000,000), or one-tenth of the present British debt...
...Only slightly less remarkable than the touch of magic by which, on the stage, a live rabbit emerges from an egg omelet is the sudden transformation of the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin, of Alabama, from a fiery foe of the interests, an implacable enemy of the Republican party, the unwavering opponent of the Administration, the chief oratorical exponent of progressive Democracy, into a co-worker with Mr. Coolidge, a supporter of Mr. Mellon, a helpful aide to the harassed Smoot, a floor manager for the Administration...