Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just seven days before the election the Relief Administration in Washington announced the amounts which the Federal Government had allotted to the States for November: $2,000,000 for Alabama . . . $6,500,000 for California . . . $11,500,000 for Illinois . . . $18,900,000 for New York . . . $9,100,000 for Pennsylvania . . . $468,000 for Wyoming. Only one State was missing from the list of benefactions. It was Maine, where the election had already been held. In a flash the Republican campaign committee pounced on this fact...
...Birmingham, Ala. last week a Federal Judge ruled that NIRA was unconstitutional. Last August a Federal Grand Jury indicted W. E. Belcher, who owns saw mills at Centerville, Plantersville and other Alabama towns, for paying his men less than 24? an hour, for working them more than 40 hours a week. Mr. Belcher's lawyer filed a demurrer. If Federal Judge William I. Grubb had decided against the defendant, U. S. v. Belcher would have been sidetracked into the District Court of Appeals for trial. But after a conference with lawyers for both sides...
...goodwill tour of 2,700 North American Lions Clubs, President Vincent C. Hascall of Lions International passed through Manhattan, stopped long enough to say: ''Our platform is Service with a capital S. . . . We are all on the upgrade, especially Mississippi, Alabama, and Mexico. There our clubs are doing more than ever before." After a dinner at the New York Club, President Hascall spoke on "Idealism and Lionism," joined with his hosts in singing...
...books offered by the publishers for Presidential reading: biographies of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richelieu, Andrew Jackson, Queen Elizabeth, Grover Cleveland. Theodore Roosevelt, Marie Antoinette; autobiographies of Clarence Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Alice B. Toklas; Beveridge and the Progressive Era, The War of Independence, The Grain Race, Stars Fell on Alabama, Of Thee I Sing, poems of Archibald MacLeish, Diego Rivera's Portrait of America, The New Dealers, Farewell to Reform, Vols. 3, 4 & 5 of Mark Sullivan's Our Times, Yachts Under Sail, Tobacco Road, Obscure Destinies, Union Square, One More Spring, Rabble in Arms, Road to Nowhere...
...young daughter Lola out across his cotton patch, raped her near a pigsty, bashed in her head and left her under some pine boughs for dead. A Negro buck named Claude Neal had been arrested for the crime, lodged for safe keeping in a jail across the Alabama line at Brewton. One hundred Floridians had driven over to Brewton and without much fuss removed Claude Neal from the jail...