Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Officers. Bank underlings who tug valiantly at their bootstraps throughout the land were again encouraged by the Association's annual bow in their direction.-For President of the A. B. A. was chosen the noted Alabama banker, Oscar Wells, President of the First National Bank of Birmingham. Born in a lopsided Missouri log cabin, Mr. Wells had tilled the soil, attended an obscure college, and risen from the springboard of his uncle's bank to be first Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Tex. He is rubicund yet determined; his rise has not been too meteoric...
...also have in this mail a letter from Heflin, Alabama, congratulating me on the correction which I sent to your periodical...
...this plan is that no state would have fewer Congressmen than it has at present. Twenty-three states would have the same number. Twenty-five would have additional seats as follows: California, 5; Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 4; Illinois, Texas, 3; Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, 2; Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin...
Most of the demonstrators were from the North. Texas had barely 200 in line. Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, apparently were not represented-Pittsburgh alone had 2,000 marchers. New Jersey, New York and Ohio furnished large contingents...
Next year there will be a new lake in the state of Alabama. Engineers are now constructing giant harness for the Tallapoosa River which, when reined in, will be called Cherokee Bluffs Lake, a body impounding 530,000,000,000 gal. of water and having a 700-mile shore line. The bits and bridles to govern so much potential power were told about last week by the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, N. Y.: three electric generators, each driven by a 45,000-h.p. waterwheel turbine. Alabama industry will point proudly to the largest power units in the South...