Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coming out vigorously for Government ownership, the committee, headed by Alabama's Hugo La Fayette Black, declared that private operation with Federal aid "has resulted in a Saturnalia of waste, inefficiency, unearned exorbitant salaries and bonuses and other forms of so-called 'compensation,' corrupting expense accounts, exploitation of the public by the sale and manipulation of stocks, the 'values' of which are largely based on the hope of profit from robbing the taxpayer...
...Senator may talk as long as he can. By yielding to co-operative colleagues for long involved questions or side speeches, he can, under the rules, hold the floor almost indefinitely. Thus, two months ago, when he was filibustering against the anti-lynching bill, Alabama's Senator Bankhead effectively tied up Senate proceedings for a whole afternoon without speaking more than 500 words. Last week, however, it soon became apparent that Senator Long was going to get no assistance or relief from other Senators, was in fact going to be held strictly to the rules. He could yield only...
...popped Alabama's Senator Black to make the Senate's intentions perfectly plain to the leather-lunged Kingfish: "I believe it is the will of the Senate to proceed now and let the Senator from Louisiana continue his speech and complete it, even though it takes until Sunday...
...Edwin Collins ("Alabama") Pitts, one-time Sing Sing convict: permission to play professional baseball except in exhibition games; from Baseball Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis (TIME, June...
...could play, a crowd of 300 met Baseballer Pitts at the station. He reached his hotel with a motorcycle police escort. Four days later the executive committee upheld Judge Bramham's ruling. Albany executives planned to refer the case to baseball's Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Said Alabama Pitts: "You know it's funny, all this fuss being made about me, when they don't really know whether I can play ball...