Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis and Jack Doyle, a September bout between Braddock, with whom Promoter Jacobs also has an exclusive contract, and Max Baer. While the confusion about his ring activities continued. Champion Louis went home to visit his mother in Detroit where he got a report that his father, a onetime Alabama cotton picker, missing for the last 22 years and long given up for dead, had been discovered in the Alabama State Asylum, where he had been since 1915. one year after Joe Louis' birth. Said Champion Louis: "Yes. he may be my father. I'm checking...
Soft-voiced Mr. White, now an instructor in ethics at Howard, was outraged when he found himself publicized as an intermediary in procuring a harem wife from among Alabama womanhood, promptly sued the Post for $100,000, claiming he had been libeled. The Post filed a demurrer on the grounds that White had suffered no damage and that the suit was nonactionable, was upheld in Circuit Court. White appealed to the Alabama Supreme Court, which reversed the lower court and ordered the case remanded in a resounding opinion by Justice Thomas E. Knight Sr.: "The purchase of a girl from...
...Philadelphia. Most spectacular conjunction was the LL.D. bestowed on Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt by John Marshall College of Law in Jersey City, N. J. Greatest celebrity beat was scored by little Elmira College (Elmira, N. Y.), which gave its Litt.D.'s to Novelist Carl Carmer (Stars Fell on Alabama), Actress Helen Hayes and (by proxy) Actress Katharine Cornell...
...Alabama College (Montevallo...
Chancellor-Emeritus Kirkland, the Board of Trust announced, would leave Vanderbilt in the capable hands of Graduate Dean Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, who was brought to Vanderbilt two years ago from the presidency of Alabama College to effect Chancellor Kirkland's plans for whittling Vanderbilt's four-year course into two divisions (TIME, May 27, 1935). Chancellor-Elect Carmichael was Alabama's sixth Rhodes Scholar (1917). After the War, when he served as a relief worker and was arrested as a spy in Belgium, India, and once in Childersburg, Ala., he settled down to teach French in Alabama...