Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cotton cost only 5? a pound. But in 13 years the South's cotton patriots, like Alabama's Senator John H. Bankhead, have pumped up the price by loan, subsidy and parity program till it has no relation to demand. Now the South is belatedly discovering that high-priced cotton is something people can do without...
...Here is the young Stonewall Jackson, speaking in a high, piping voice. Here is Cavalry General Stuart, mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern, brought to Richmond to die in a city too poor and gloomy to pay him the proper last respects. Here is Raphael Semmes, dashing captain of the Alabama (which was sunk by the Kearsarge in one of the war's great naval fights), who for a few days raised Richmond's flagging spirits. Here is General Robert E. Lee, besieged by Southern belles who had been criticized for going to dances in wartime. Said...
Cater, a resident of Montgomery, Alabama, and Adams House, a member of the CRIMSON Editorial Board in 1943, returned to college this term after serving for nearly three years with the Office of Strategic Services...
Born in Indiana, Pauley spent his youth in Alabama, then moved to California. He earned his way through Occidental College and the University of California, got a Master's degree in business administration. A 1924 airplane crash left him bedridden for a year. Recovered, he plunged into oil operations. As head of tiny Petrol Corp. he first fought the major companies, but when Petrol Corp. had its back to the wall, he allowed a major (Signal Oil) to bail him out. At 38 he was a millionaire...
...Alabama's Senator Lister Hill came out of his chair like a rooster flapping for the high roost, began squawking in protest. But Chavez had successfully brought off a slick parliamentary maneuver.* A vote was taken. The motion passed, 49 to 17. The FEPC fight was out in the open...