Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years later Captain Hobson re tired from the Navy and went into the politics of Alabama, where he was born. He was in Congress as a Representative from 1907 to 1915. He was the first Congressman to introduce a bill for a Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution. From alcohol he leaped to narcotics. Now, 60, a confirmed zealot, he has homes in Los Angeles and Manhattan, communities salty with drugs. Last week he was in Manhattan to blow a large blast against the Jericho of dope...
YOUR COMMENTS JUDGE PAYNES TESTIMONY CONCERNING RED CROSS RELIEF . . . INFERS BIRMINGHAM HAS ASKED FOR NATIONAL RELIEF WHICH IS ERRONEOUS- STOP WHAT JUDGE PAYNE SAID WAS BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA IS ONLY RED CROSS CHAPTER DOING URBAN ORGANIZED CHARITY AND IS SUPPORTED BY COMMUNITY CHEST STOP IN FAIRNESS TO US PLEASE CORRECT YOUR ERROR IN ANY COMMENTS ON RED CROSS RELIEF YOUR NEXT ISSUE AS WE HAVE NOT ASKED FOR OUTSIDE HELP AND ARE FUNCTIONING SATISFACTORILY UNDER EXISTING CIRCUMSTANCES...
Forthwith the Alabama House of Representatives passed a joint resolution declaring that: "The said J. Thomas Heflin has during the greater part of his tenure of office . . . made Alabama the laughing stock of the Union by his bigotry, lack of religious tolerance and the lack of many of the courtesies expected between one gentleman and another." The resolution expressed "condemnation of the very poor sportsmanship exhibited in being unwilling to admit like a man that he was defeated in a fair election...
...Other States with bonds in default: Alabama, $13,000,000; Arkansas, $8,700,000; Florida, $8,000,000; Georgia, $13,500,000; Louisiana, $6,000,000; North Carolina, $13,000,000; South Carolina, $6,000,000. Minnesota once repudiated, reconsidered...
...States: Alabama, Arkansas. Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia. Only in Arkansas did every county need help. The inhabitants of the Drought-stricken parts of these States are chronically poor, their margin of prosperity never high...