Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...utilities for $80,000,000, National Power & Light last week sold to TVA and the City of Memphis for $17,360,000 the distributing system of Memphis Power & Light Co., leaving TVA with no major private competitors in Tennessee. TVA is dickering for parts of Commonwealth & Southern's Alabama and Mississippi properties that would give the Authority a clearly defined power empire in three States...
...years ago, when Al Smith ran for President, bellowed at by Alabama's Senator "Tom-Tom" Heflin, who mortally hated & feared the "Pope of Rome,"* Catholicism was brought forward as an issue in U. S. life. There can be no doubt that religious intolerance was a large factor in Al Smith's defeat. Since 1928, Pius XI's U. S. priesthood has got in some good licks on anti-Catholic sentiment. So skilfully have they stimulated U. S. reaction against that year's campaign of whispering and Heffling that the atmosphere has intangibly but perceptibly changed...
...paired their votes, so 93 votes were recorded, the biggest Senate vote in three years. Several times the lead changed as, in the hushed room, Senators in alphabetical order answered "yea" or "nay." First shock to Leader Barkley's composure came just before his own name was called. Alabama's Bankhead, brother of the Speaker and ordinarily a sure Administration vote, said...
...proud delegates attended a banquet given by the Civil Liberties Commission of the Colored Elks to honor six Congressmen chosen as champions of the underprivileged. A triumph was the banqueting place: the private red-&-gilt dining room (attached to the House Restaurant) of Speaker William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama...
...farm organizations none is so potent as American Farm Bureau Federation, and of all farm leaders few are so influential as the Federation's burly president, Alabama Cotton Grower Edward Asbury O'Neal III. Last week to the Federation's convention in New Orleans went Ed O'Neal's farm-minded neighbor, Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama, to propose a plan for disposing of an estimated cotton carryover of 13,600,000 bales. The plan: to get farmers to reduce their estimated 1939 production of 12,000,000 bales by 4,000,000 bales...