Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alabama, where Speaker William Bankhead, Senator Lister Hill and Representative Sam Hobbs were unopposed for renomination, last week's major political plum was the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. At week's end it remained on the branch when Major Frank Dixon fell just short of a clear majority against four other candidates. A run-off election will be held June 14. Campaigning for a seat in the House, aging J. Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, who lost a Senate race to Lister Hill last winter, lost again, this time to the incumbent Joe Starnes of Guntersville...
...CHILDREN - Harriet Hassell-- Harper ($2.50). The Biblical story of Joseph fitted to a family of Southern landowners, bossed by a tyrannical widow whose eventual insanity gives the story its faint echo of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. A first novel by a 26-year-old Alabama coed, a Story magazine prize winner of last year...
...Claude Pepper, United States Senator" are words that were inscribed in the bark of a tree at Camp Hill, Ala. by Claude Pepper in 1911. He was then ten years old. After nursing his ambition while working as a farm helper and in an Alabama steel mill, stoking furnaces at Alabama University, boning through Harvard Law School where he graduated in 1924 and starting a law practice in Perry, then in Tallahassee, Claude Pepper set out to realize his goal by running for election...
...South, where freakish twisters were still coursing along the Alabama-Mississippi boundary and last week killed ten people and wrecked hundreds of houses, driving rains brought most creeks and rivers to flood stage, some beyond. Onto Whitestone Mountain in northwest Georgia descended a mighty cloudburst that sounded like Niagara, rushed down to destroy the tiny quarry town of Whitestone (pop. 200), where a family of 13 were drowned in one house...
...Birmingham, Alabama, is Howard College. The Undergraduate publication is the Howard Crimson...