Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having gone through the tedious process for three years, Annie Laurie Swaim, University of Alabama, campus beauty, decided treat this year she'd avoid the rush. Arising shortly after midnight on registration morning. she picked the No. 1 spot in front to of Alabama's administration building and did her waiting in the cool mornings, hours...
...knee and another who kept up with the procession in a wheelchair. Typical sights: Chattanooga's Drum and Bugle Corps in old khaki trench uniforms, spattered with prefabricated mud; autos disguised as French locomotives and freight cars ("40 hommes, 8 chevaux") and Paris taxicabs; one-man bands; Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves with his Wife-Senator Dixie Bibb Graves; 30,000 paraders from Pennsylvania; 1,200 Legionnaires from Kentucky with dried tobacco sheaves; Maine's Crooner Rudy Vallée (aged...
After his summation of the arguments, current sincethe revocation of the Edict of Nantes and before, in favor, of religious freedom, and the statement that he too favored religious freedom, the Alabama Senator said "I did join the Ku Klux Klan; I later resigned; I never re-joined," and that was all. He did not even hint at what was in his mind when he did join. He did not give the reasons which impelled him to leave the Invisible Empire. He said that he did not know what was on the records of the Klan or what...
...only partial," he added, "and very partial at that. He might have been a member in Georgia, but I don't see how that would help him win an election in Alabama. It really is quite mysterious to me how he ever...
...dryly: "We always handle Democrats that way." South Carolina's Johnston danced with Host Hoffman's secretary. Utah's Blood was attentive to the wife of North Carolina's Hoey. Neither the Governor of North Carolina nor the Governor of South Carolina took a drink. Alabama's Bibb Graves and his lady, Dixie Bibb Graves, the new Senator from Alabama, were harassed by newshawks seeking statements about Associate Justice Hugo Black (see p. 10). Only Florida's Cone, who talked long and earnestly to Indiana's Townsend, seemed bored by the entertainment...