Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called on his step-mother-in-law, met his friends and political advisers, went on to Manhattan for similar conferences. "Grooming himself for 1928? Patching party fences? Planning to do away with the Democratic Convention's two thirds vote for nomination?" conjectured correspondents. W. W. Brandon, Governor of Alabama, the stentorian voice who last June called more than 100 times "Twenty foah for Un-da-wood !" appeared at a "Southern Exposition" held in Manhattan, bringing the result of a state-wide ballot on "Alabama's greatest living men and women"-to wit: Writer: Octavus Roy Cohen Statesman: Oscar...
...spent looking up and correcting faulty addresses. In Alabama, visiting Clemson College, Josephus Daniels, onetime (1913-21) overlord of the Navy, made comparisons...
...merger will invade fourteen states: New York, Ohio Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, The Carolinas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas. In addition, branch lines from these states will enter still other states. Cities affected by the merger...
...turned out an infectious jest. Laws tending to infringe upon the freedom of mankind's intellectual liberty had been cropping up all over the country lately-an anti-parochial-and-private-school law in Oregon (TIME, Mar. 30, SUPREME COURT), similar laws (defeated, however) in Alabama and Michigan, lukewarm efforts for an anti-evolution law in Florida, similar laws pending in West Virginia and Georgia, narrowly defeated in Kentucky and North Carolina, passed but repealed in Oklahoma. Tennessee's case, for all its levity of origin, was clean-cut. It iso- lated the issue of all the others...
Four governors were there-Moore of Idaho, Smith of New York, Winant of New Hampshire, Brandon of Alabama. U.S. Secretary of Labor Davis was there, a politician or two, notables various, such as William Jennings Bryan, Mrs. W. R. Hearst, Miss Margaret Wilson. The sessions were to last five days...