Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor. John Roy Steelman, the professor, was born on an Arkansas farm 46 years ago. He went to war, returned and worked his way through college, got a master's degree in sociology, became professor of sociology at Alabama College. He was called to Washington by Frances Perkins to serve as a labor conciliator. Now, as the boss of OWMR, he sits over the whole national economy-a regular fellow and a friend...
...Alabama, industrious John Sparkman, House Majority Whip, missed a clear majority over four opponents by a whisker (less than 300 votes), in a contest to fill the Senate seat of the late John H. Bankhead. In the runoff, Sparkman faces conservative James A. Simpson, Birmingham corporation lawyer, who ran second in both rural and city districts...
Many broadcasters view Cliff Durr as an alarming threat to free radio, a harbinger of Government ownership. His background only partially qualifies him as a socialist reformer. Born to an aristocratic Alabama family, he won a Rhodes scholarship in 1920, earned his degree in jurisprudence and his "blue" (letter) in rugby at Oxford. Back in Alabama, he became a corporation attorney, married Justice Hugo Black's sister-in-law. Some time after joining RFC's legal division, he tied with a colleague in a stenographers' vote for the "biggest hayseed" on the staff. He was a director...
Died. John Hollis Bankhead, 73, Senator from Alabama since 1931, who fought hard for the restoration of ex-King Cotton to the U.S. economic throne, last of a hardy trio of congressional Bankheads, uncle of throaty Actress Tallulah; of cerebral thrombosis; in Bethesda...
...Alabama: The runoff primary for governor was a freakish contest. Outsize (6 ft. 8 in.) Jim Folsom, ex-G.I. endorsed by the C.I.O., mopped up professional politician L. Handy Ellis with the added help of sudsy showmanship (TIME, May 20) and a five-piece band. Big Jim, who swore he kissed 50,000 women in the campaign, polled heavily in back-country areas, and in these he had discreetly soft-pedaled his P.A.C. support...