Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them, to wear tricorn hats, she has exercised for many a year. Another, to conciliate labor disputes, she has had since taking office but has not notably exercised. In the crowd of angry disputants in the automobile labor trouble, the Weirton Steel case, the Budd body strike, the Alabama miners' walkout, the Manhattan taxicab strike and many another, one might see the panama of NRA's General Johnson, the grey fedoras of the National Labor Board's Senator Wagner and Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor-but seldom "Madam Queen's" tricorn...
STARS FELL ON ALABAMA-Carl Carmer -Farrar & Rinehart...
...Alabama is home to 2,700,000 U. S. citizens, but to Carl Carmer, a Yankee who lived there six years, it is also a queer place. Says he: "The Congo is not more different from Massachusetts or Kansas or California." His book, an anecdotal narrative of some of his experiences in Alabama, goes far toward bearing out his thesis. But Alabamians would have to be thin-skinned indeed to object to the tone of Author Carmer's remarks. Though he makes many an explicit criticism, points silently at some grim conclusions, he also tosses many a bouquet, with...
Author Carmer went to the University of Alabama, near Tuscaloosa, as associate professor of English. He was greeted hospitably, despite the fact that he was born in New York State. On his first evening in Tuscaloosa he made the acquaintance of the Southern vin du pays, corn whiskey. He never learned to like it, calls it "as vile and as uglily potent a liquor as ever man has distilled." One day in class he made the innocent mistake of comparing Tuscaloosa's picturesqueness with a North African city. "On the next day six serious young men waited upon...
...hooded head of the Ku Klux Klan was raised in Alabama last week as the State held its Democratic run-off primaries, tantamount to election. Bibb Graves, onetime (1927-31) Governor, became the first man in 33 years to succeed to that office a second time. Defeated by 20,000 votes, Major Frank M. Dixon, Birmingham lawyer, loudly cried that Graves's victory was a triumph for the long dormant Klan. Not only did Bibb Graves deny the accusation, but the Grand Dragon of the State assured one & all that only six of his Klaverns are now active, none...