Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down here in Birmingham I pay a maximum of 6½? which scales down as low as 1½?. Last month's average rate was 2.78?. That is not a TVA rate either, but one supplied by the Birmingham Electric Co., which distributes current it buys from the Alabama Power Co. at the city limits...
Sick & tired of J. Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin's threats to contest the election which dropped him out of his comfortable U. S. Senate seat in 1930, an Alabama legislator named Coates rose in Montgomery in 1931, declared: "No man in Alabama during the last quarter of a century has received greater gifts within the range of the electorate of this State than has J. Thomas Heflin...
...back to the U. S. Senate; he buttonholed his ex-colleagues until they granted him extraordinary permission to state his case on the floor of the Senate, which he did for 5½ purple hours- in vain. In 1934 he swallowed his pride, ran for Congressman from the Fifth Alabama District, the comparatively lowly job he had held for eight and a half terms (1904-21) before he found his way to the Senate. Ungrateful constituents placed Congressional Candidate Heflin no better than third, so he rushed back to Washington and the Federal job dispensers...
These revelations probably bothered paunchy, white-vested Tom Heflin not at all. He was back in Alabama, working feverishly against the day next year when Mrs. Dixie Bibb Graves's term in the Senate expires, when the electorate may possibly put Tom Heflin on the payroll again for six long years at $10,000 per year...
...four years bishop of South Africa, Bishop Sims returned to the U. S. in 1936 to become Bishop of Alabama and assistant to Bishop William H. Heard. Last month, death came to 87-year-old Bishop Heard soon after he returned from Scotland where, during deliberations of the World Conference on Faith & Order, he was barred from an Edinburgh hotel, commiserated with by the Archbishop of York and Sir John Simon (TIME, Aug. 16). Bishop Sims earns $6,800 a year, rules his flocks with liberality, as contrasted with most African Methodist bishops, who generally disapprove of dancing...