Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia...
Almost everybody except the candidates and the P.A.C. was bored with Alabama's primary campaign. One candidate afforded a spark of interest and amusement. He was 37-year-old James Elisha ("Big Jim") Folsom, a 6 ft. 8 in. shouter of tall promises, who campaigned for the governorship with a five-piece hillbilly band, a mop and a bucket ("to clean up the State Capitol"), and P.A.C.'s blessing. He had run for various offices four times, had been elected only once-to be a delegate to the 1944 Democratic National Convention (where he plunked for Henry Wallace...
...strong spots, he was well behind. But when the tally came in from rural areas (where he had soft-pedaled his P.A.C. support), "Big Jim" spurted ahead. At the finish he was well in front of Handy Ellis, but not far enough for a clean-cut victory. Thoroughly frightened, Alabama's professionals rallied around Ellis for a slugging run-off primary battle with the lone giant...
...shirt-sleeved audience sweltering in the frowzy, faded yellow hall on Atlanta's Ivy Street included labor leaders from Texas oil fields, Alabama steel furnaces, North Carolina textile mills. They had gathered to be knighted for a new crusade. Up rose portly, grizzled Van Bittner, 61-year-old veteran organizer and director of the C.I.O.'s drive to unionize the South, to make the dedication...
Owing to the paucity of members who will attend college during the summer term, the Council also voted on Wednesday to curtail its operation during the summer. In its stead, a temporary committee composed of all resident council members and headed by S. Douglass Cater '46 of Montgomery, Alabama and Wigglesworth Hall, will conduct all business normally handled by the council...