Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrat Huddleston of Alabama, fiery little advocate of direct Federal relief for unemployment: The State of the Union is darned bad! President Hoover has given an outright dole to the railroads. He would give a dole to the building and loan associations. He would come to the aid of banks with frozen assets. He would help foreign countries by the Moratorium. . . . To these interests he would give billions but to starving American women and children he wouldn't give one red cent. In the White House we have a man more interested in the pocketbooks of the rich than...
After prayers and a roll call by States beginning "Alabama-McDuffie," Democrat John Nance Garner of Texas was nominated for the Speakership amid party whoops and rebel yells. Put up against him was Republican Bertrand Snell of New York (TIME, Dec. 7). The vote: Garner, 218; Snell: 207; Schneider, a Wisconsin Insurgent: 5. None of the three voted for himself. With the House, now Democratic for the first time in twelve years, standing and cheering, Speaker Garner in a brown-speckled suit was ceremoniously led up the new blue carpet to the rostrum, duly installed. With one autocratic sweep...
...Governors of the big bituminous coal States east of the Mississippi River (Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, Tennessee) to appoint a "stabilizing"' commission...
Element No. 87's discovery was claimed last year by Dr. Fred Allison of Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Recently he said he had found No. 85, ekaiodine, the other unisolated element. Professor Jacob Papish also claimed discovery of No. 87, eka-cesium. He told the Academy he had made tests with Dr. Allison's magneto-optic device, found chemical mixtures sometimes made it register elements not really present...
Like Delaware with its du Ponts, North Carolina with its Dukes, California with its Stanfords, Alabama with its late Harvey G. Woodward (TIME, Jan. 5), Texas had a friend to education in the late William Clifford Hogg, oilman who died in Baden-Baden a year ago (TIME, Sept. 22, 1930). Son of the late Governor James Stephen Hogg, brother of Michael and Ima Hogg,* he made a fortune in oil, willed a large part of it to schools and colleges. Appraisal last week revealed the extent of the bequests: a total of $2,618,568. In the discretion of Brother...