Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most interested listeners when J. Emory Duskin, onetime head of Alabama's real estate association, broadcast from Manhattan on Sanka Coffee Co.'s We, the People program were 1,300 convicts gathered around the radio in the model dairy of Montgomery, Ala.'s Kilby prison. Reason: Mr. Duskin, their colleague, under a 36 to 60-year sentence for borrowing 850,000 from his former clients, but on parole since last July, had been granted permission by Governor Bibb Graves to fly to Manhattan unguarded for the broadcast. The keynote of his speech: "The most important thing...
...recipients are Richard B. Tennant, Yale, of New York City; Charles N. Feidelson, Jr., Yale, of Birmingham, Alabama; Raymond J. Emrich, Princeton, of Denver, Colorado; and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Harvard, of Cambridge, all of whom will go to Cambridge University; John L. Dampeer, Harvard, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio; Albert Damon, Harvard, of Brookline; and John A. Moore, Harvard, of Clayton, Missouri, who will study at Oxford University...
...stated that "Planter Greene" is a cousin of Representative Hobbs of Alabama. This is the most accurate statement in the article. He is Congressman Hobbs's brother...
...Perrin, niece of Alabama's late, longtime U. S. Senator John Tyler Morgan, TIME'S thanks for reporting an incident far graver than the U. S. press realized...
Broad-shouldered Oliver Carmichael was self-educated in the schoolroom and library built by his father, an Alabama farmer, for the family's seven boys and three girls.* At 15 he was ready to go to the University of Alabama. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, interrupted his studies to work for Herbert Hoover's relief commission in Belgium, to go to India, take a fling in General Smuts's East African Army. He was twice mistakenly arrested as a spy. When he arrived in Alabama to enlist in the U. S. Army...