Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debate was on. The drawling voices of Texas, Mississippi, Alabama laid the anxieties and defiance of the South before the convention of their party. The vernaculars of Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Minnesota shouted the North's challenge...
...stiflingly hot, concrete-floored room at the rear of the hall, where he held court for visitors. Jimmy Roosevelt and Chicago's ex-Mayor Ed Kelly dropped by, as did New , York's Mayor Bill O'Dwyer. Only one top-drawer Southerner showed up: Alabama's Senator John Sparkman. But Harry Truman was not sore at anybody. To a friend, he said: "They may be mad at me, but I'm not mad at them. I believe in Christ...
...meeting had more lung power than political strength. The delegates, except for those from Mississippi and Alabama, were political outs and has-beens. Most bigwig Southern politicos pointedly stayed away. Even Arkansas' Governor Ben Laney, who had withdrawn as the rebels' favorite son at Philadelphia, remained aloof in his downtown hotel room, contented himself with offering advice...
Dewey told newsmen little they wanted to know. He used the moment for its psychological effect on the enemy. He exuded victory. Delegations had been calling on him all day. He rolled off a list: Oklahoma, Maine, Alabama, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Oregon, Wyoming, Rhode Island. It was probably the high point of the war of nerves. "I have no understandings, arrangements, bargains or deals with anyone in the United States for anything," he said...
...Louis had been world heavyweight champion so long (eleven years and three days) that many people had forgotten the last one.* Idol of the Negro race, and so popular with the whites that the old cry for a "white hope" never came up, Joe Louis, the slow-thinking Alabama boy, was a champion the whole U.S. was proud of. No taint of suspicion ever hung over any of his 61 pro fights (although he was managed for years by racket men). The gate receipts grossed a whopping $11,000,000 of which his share...