Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Having become the slaves of conscienceless predatory interests they try to besmirch and belittle every public man who refuses to do as they have done-prove unworthy to bear the name of citizen of the United States and betray his country"-thus Senator Heflin of Alabama described The New York Herald, the New York Tribune and "other subsidized Republican newspapers" that expressed weariness with the conduct of Senatorial investigators...
...Alabama, Old Style...
...last week in the northern (Senate) wing of the Capitol, J. Thomas Heflin, a gentleman from Alabama, arose to address his venerable colleagues, saying: "Some time ago I said in the Senate that 'G. O. P.' had been interpreted to mean 'going out of power,' and that a gentleman...
...foreign countries. Excluding Massachusetts with 129 men, the State of Ohio ranks first with 51, followed by New York with 48. The State of California has 41, Minnesota 26, Pennsylvania 24 and Kansas and Iowa 16 each. Indiana has 14, Maine 14 and Micaigan and Missouri 10 each. Alabama. North Dakota, Nevada, Wyoming and Delaware are the only states not represented...
...Nowadays an army or a navy without an air-force is like a boxer entering a fight blind-folded;" whereupon to prove his point, General Patrick proceeded to show some terrifying pictures of the bombing of the battleship Alabama. Exactly six minutes elapsed between the moment when the 2000 lb, bomb struck the deck of the doomed ship to the time when its keel disappeared beneath the sea. And to show how much the art of air-offence has improved, nowadays three air-planes can drop in one fight as many tons of bombs as were dropped on London during...