Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Alabama's poliomyelitis ("polio") epidemic intensified, Governor Bibb Graves ordered all inmates in State institutions to be given an immunizing nasal spray (picric acid + sodium alum), made it possible for State employes to have the same treatment for 10?. Taking advantage of his own proposition, Governor Graves called Dr. H. G. Camp, Chief State Prison Physician, into his office, had his own nostrils well flushed...
...entrance to the Alabama State Fair Grounds outside Birmingham last week WPA workmen raised timber scaffolding around the largest cast-iron statue in the world. An intricate block & tackle was set up and, to the banging of hammers & chisels the head of Birmingham's "Iron Man," marvel of the St. Louis Exposition of 1904, was pulled off and lowered to the ground. After 30 years of neglect Birmingham's Vulcan was about to be moved to the top of the same Red Mountain from which much of the ore he is made...
...South should send to the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition at St. Louis. Secretary James Arthur MacKnight had an idea: Birmingham was famed for its iron foundries. Why not a huge statue of Vulcan, something to hold its own with New York's Statue of Liberty, but made from Alabama cast iron...
Secretary MacKnight also had a sculptor to suggest: tousle-haired, thickset Giuseppe Moretti, of Siena, Italy. Faces beamed around the luncheon table, for Sculptor Moretti, at that time a tombstone designer for New England granite concerns, was the first artist of any ability to plump for Alabama marble as a medium for sculpture, insisted loudly that it was quite the equal of Carrara...
...Agricultural Adjustment Administration in 1934, who had joined the committee as counsel. President Van A. Bittner of the West Virginia miners' union was told off to direct the assault on non-union Steel in the Chicago area. The South was assigned to William Mitch, district mine president of Alabama. To Clinton S. Golden, onetime official of the National Labor Relations Board, was assigned direct charge of the East. On top of the whole field organization was placed pious and progressive U.M.W. Secretary & Treasurer Philip Francis Murray, who. just off an emigrants' boat from Scotland, went underground...