Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Common Colds last only three or four days and make the victims immune for three months, decided Wilson George Smillie (Harvard public health administrator) after studying four isolated communities?in Labrador at Spitsbergen on the Island of St. John in the Virgin Islands and in a southern Alabama hill town. In each community the inhabitants were free of colds until strangers arrived. The experience of Spitsbergen where men mine coal all year round was sharply defined. From November when the last heat departed until the day after the first boat arrived the next spring no miner had a cold, although...
...Alabama's Steagall...
...following subscribers to TIME, and constituents of Congressman Henry B. Steagall, of Alabama, would appreciate your publishing the record and achievements of Mr. Steagall...
...record of Representative Henry Bascom Steagall of Alabama is as follows...
Career: Educated in the common schools, he attended the Southeast Alabama Agricultural School at Abbeville for two years (1890-92), moving on to the University of Alabama to obtain a law degree (1893). After nine years' private practice he became solicitor for his native county, later serving a term (1906-07) in the Alabama House of Representatives. Quick of mind, sharp of tongue, he had himself chosen prosecuting attorney for his district, a position he held when he attended the Democratic National Convention as a delegate in Baltimore in 1912. As a small-town lawyer, he was nominated...