Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clearly drawn against the New Deal, and in 1946 the Republicans had won. Some talked of reviving their congressional coalition with conservative Southern Democrats-a set of obstructionists whom Harry Truman had just thrown overboard as so much excess ballast. Speaker Joe Martin hustled down to Mobile, told the Alabama Chamber of Commerce: "It was the South which helped to hold the line for American enterprise through the trying years of the prewar experiment in Washington...
Fullback Chip Gannon has accepted an invitation to play in the annual North-South football game at Birmingham, Alabama, on Christmas Day, it was learned yesterday. Basketball Coach Bill Barclay his granted him a "leave of absence" from his position as hoop captain in order to make the trip...
Harvard's kickoff-and-extra-point artist Drvaric, and defensive guard Nick Rodis, were asked to join the All-North football team that plays an All-South squad in Montgomery, Alabama, on Christmas Day. Both men are Seniors. Other men named to the All-North squad included Dartmouth's Jonathan Jenkins and Joe Sullivan, Columbia's Jack Nork, and Holy Cross' Veto Kissell...
...Superfort over Japan, Staff Sergeant Henry E. Erwin, of Alabama, picked up a burning phosphorus bomb with his bare hands, tossed it out a copilot's open window. Despite his searing burns, Erwin lived to have the Medal of Honor pinned on his bandages. Sergeant Thomas A. Baker, of New York, severely wounded on Saipan, refused to retreat, was left propped against a tree, with a pistol containing eight rounds. Later, when his body and empty pistol were found, eight Japanese lay dead around...
From New York's Thomas E. Dewey: "The name of Connie Mack stands for what is best in our national game . . ." From South Carolina's J. Strom Thurmond: "Yours is a record which has no equal..." From Alabama's James Folsom: "Your life has been an inspiration . . ." From Louisiana's Earl K. Long: "America is all the richer for people like...