Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House first showed a Dry majority (197 to 189) on a resolution to amend the Constitution prohibiting intoxicating beverages. Offered by Congressman Richmond Pearson Hobson of Alabama the resolution failed to win the necessary two-thirds majority...
...Treasury Mellon gave him a birthday dinner party. The Senate festivities started when New York's Senator Copeland, a physician, predicted that the Vice President was still physically good for many another year of service. South Carolina's Senator Blease hoped he would become President. Alabama's Senator Heflin called the Curtis career an "inspiration to youth" while Indiana's Senator Watson likened him to a "veritable Gibraltar...
Close by stands Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry from Alabama, a member of the Provisional Confederate Congress which elected Davis & Stephens to office, a lieutenant colonel of cavalry. He now lies in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. not far from the grave of Jefferson Davis...
Confederate Generals would well serve as a guard of honor for their President-Edmund Kirby Smith from Florida, whom Davis saw fighting at Bull Run, the last Confederate Commander to surrender his arms (May 26, 1865); Joseph Wheeler from Alabama, second only to Stuart as a cavalry general, who lived long enough to command U. S. troops as a major-general of volunteers at the Battle of San Juan in the Spanish War; Wade Hampton from South Carolina, aristocrat and planter, leader of "Hampton's Legion" at Bull Run, commander of Lee's cavalry after Stuart...
Gulf States Steel Co. (largest independent in the South, properties in Alabama): $1,310,000 as against...