Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alabama's Democratic primary voters unseated two Congressmen-Pete Jarman and Carter Manasco-and landed a one-two punch to Harry Truman's chin. The front-runners in the race for Alabama's eleven presidential electors were all pledged to vote against Harry Truman or any civil-rights nominee. Of the leaders in the scramble for Alabama's 26 Democratic convention seats, virtually all were opposed to Truman's renomination, 13 were pledged to bolt the convention if a civil-rights plank were adopted...
...couple of years ago, when he was running for office, Alabama's caveman Governor James E. Folsom was struck spang in the middle of a speech, couldn't rightly put one word after another. His roving eye had fastened on a fine figure of a woman in the crowd. He found out later that her name was Jamelle Moore, and that her daddy worked for the state. Jim courted her off & on, when he wasn't kissing other women...
...answers were locked in Folsom's enormous bosom; he was off honeymooning in Florida. But Alabama's voters gave one indication of how they were beginning to feel about their boar-brained governor. Last week they soundly defeated him as a candidate for delegate to the Democratic National Convention...
...Deep South last week, self-righteous bigotry made votes for Wallace. Barnstorming through Alabama, Senator Glen Taylor, Henry Wallace's running mate, dropped in on a Birmingham meeting of the Communist-front Southern Negro Youth Congress. It was a small meeting-one hundred Negroes and whites gathered in a seedy little Negro church in the heart of the Negro district. But policemen guarded the doors; others prowled the darkness outside. Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor had declared roundly: "There's not enough room in town for Bull and the Commies...
...This is the colored entrance," he said, "the white entrance is around the side." Taylor ignored him, tried to brush past. Four detectives closed in. They hustled Taylor to a patrol car and shoved him in. At the police station, Senator Taylor was booked for "disorderly conduct" (for violating Alabama's segregation laws) and searched. When he protested, a cop growled: "Keep your mouth shut, buddy." Released on bond, he was ordered to stand trial this week. Said Senator Taylor: "They treated me very rough-anything but gentlemanly. God help the ordinary...