Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...furious battle between linemen who charged like bulls and tackled like demons, Fordham managed to beat Alabama by blocking a kick for a safety...
Visiting in Washington was Alabama's portly ex-Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, whose fear and hate of Popery caused him to bolt the Democratic candidacy of Al Smith, plump for Hoover in 1928. To inquiries about his law business in Lafayette. Ala, he replied: "Business is good. I'm at peace with the world." "How about you and the Pope?" he was asked. Senator Heflin grinned broadly, "I'm at peace with the Pope...
Though the Scottsboro case has not figured very much in the summer news, it resumes operations next month in Alabama under a new management. In the meantime, however, the citizens have not found time too leaden-footed just to keep their hands in, they have engineered two typical lynchings in the last two months. The second and latest was a routine affair, but the first was, perhaps, a little more interesting. The negro defendants accused of crimes against whites were being taken by the police from Tuscaloosa to Decatur by a backroad, escorted by ten armed men in automobiles. When...
...merchant fleet back on the seven seas by means of mail subsidies and cheap construction loans, no one thought the job could be done for nothing. How very much the 14-year effort cost the Treasury -and how and why-a special Senate investigating committee headed by Alabama's lean, earnest Hugo Black began last week to discover...
...Already under union contract are most of the mines in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Arkansas, Wyoming, Montana, Washington. Alabama and Western Kentucky operators still balk at union-ization...