Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Negro Mitchell got his chance when Negro De Priest's white Democratic op ponent in Chicago's Black Belt died during the campaign and Mr. Mitchell was named in his place. A native of Alabama, Arthur Mitchell went to Tuskegee Institute, served as the late great Booker T. Washington's office boy, became a Washington, D. C. lawyer. He married a Negro woman who operates a Government accounting machine. They put their boy through the University of Michigan. The Mitchells moved to Chicago in 1928, there working for the G. O. P. and Herbert Hoover...
...Democrat Mitchell's vote will count as much as anyone's in the election of a Democratic Speaker, he will be offered committee assignments, invited to party caucuses. Nothing can prevent his occupying a suite in the House Office Building along with white Representatives from Georgia and Alabama. He is entitled to eat with them in the House Restaurant, sit beside them on the House floor...
Dark Victory (by George Brewer Jr. & Bertram Bloch; Alexander McKaig, producer). At least one star fell on Alabama when Tallulah Bankhead was born at Huntsville 32 years ago. Without tarrying long on the stage of her native land, this daughter of a Congressman and niece of a Senator went to England where she played in a dozen successes, settled in a luxurious little house in Farm Street, drove a flashing green Bentley. She was publicly and privately idolized by enthusiastic followers who took her for the personification of Sex. Last year Miss Bankhead came home to act in a featherweight...
Huey Long offered to bet that Louisiana State could beat Minnesota and Alabama on the same afternoon. Having made one member of the team a State Senator (see p. 17), he promised colonelcies to all State players who made touchdowns against George Washington University. Bert Yates made the one that enabled Louisiana to squeak through...
...Lexington, Alabama scored touchdowns in every period but the third, overwhelmed Kentucky, 34-to-14. At New Orleans, Tulane scored in every period but the second, won a hard-fought game from Mississippi, 15-to-0. Leading candidates to represent the South in New Orleans' "Sugar Bowl" game Jan. 1, Alabama's "Crimson Tide" and Tulane's "Green Wave" do not play each other this year...