Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where there are subsidies there is apt to be graft and corruption. On that as- sumption the U. S. Senate last summer began looking into air and ocean mail contracts. A special committee headed by Alabama's Black found that U. S. shipping men bought vessels for almost nothing from the Government and then collected fat fees for carrying almost no mail, that U. S. airline executives made big speculative profits while small concerns were being frozen off the air mail map. But not until last week did Senator Black and his committee strike pay dirt that, in newspaper...
...Other newcomers sworn in were Texas' Thompson, Georgia's Brown, Arkansas' Terry, Alabama's Carmichael, Pennsylvania's Frey, New York's Clarke, West Virginia's Edmiston...
...denning it. For these two purposes each house has two other potent committees. The two Appropriation (spending) Committees are headed by Virginia's little old Senator Glass (see p. 14) and Representative Buchanan of Texas. The Banking & Currency (defining) Committees are under Florida's Fletcher and Alabama's Steagall. Thus has the Solid South been rewarded with all the key money posts in Congress...
Thus for the third time in three years did an Alabama jury last week decide the fate of 20-year-old Negro Heywood Patterson. Accused with eight other Negroes of raping two white girls in a freight car near Scottsboro, he had twice been saved from the electric chair by judicial appeal. The first conviction was set aside by the U. S. Supreme Court last year and a new trial ordered (TIME, Nov. 14, 1932). The second was voided by the judge at the second trial who claimed the verdict was unwarranted by the evidence. This time at Decatur Patterson...
...Compton turned to a dark, heavy-chinned young man standing quietly at his side. Robert J. Van de Graaff was born in Alabama 32 years ago, won a Rhodes scholarship, became a National Research Fellow at Princeton, designed and built his big generator as an M. I. T. research associate...