Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Backstage. In spite of professional performances by Tom Connally and his supporting company-which included such seasoned troupers as Mississippi's Bilbo, Alabama's Bankhead and Tennessee's McKellar (see cut)-none but the most gullible galleryite was taken in. Everybody else knew that a cynical Senate had quietly made an election-year deal, arranged everything backstage in advance. There would be 1) no filibuster, 2) no cloture, 3) no Marcantonio bill...
...Heard Alabama's cotton-conscious Bankhead rail against the menace of rayon ("We can't let 3,000,000 families in the South face starvation"). ¶ Decided to decline, with regret, an invitation to Congressmen to visit the British Parliament. Foreign Relations Chairman Tom Connally said he would ask for a "rain check...
...South will string along with the New Deal. That was the news last week from the Alabama and Florida primaries. The victorious New Dealers had bad scares. They had to fight fiercely and draw heavily on their established personal strength. They won by narrower margins than they enjoyed six years ago. But political observers, pondering the returns, agreed that...
...Alabama, drawling Lister Hill, who coon-shouted the nomination of Franklin Roosevelt for Term III at Chicago, fought for his U.S. Senate seat against well-to-do, sad-faced James Simpson, 54, banker, corporation lawyer, respected state legislator. With "white supremacy" as a shrill battle cry, Birmingham's moneyed, mill-owning, New Deal-hating "Big Mules" got behind Candidate Simpson and pushed hard. So did the Negro-baiting Alabama Sun and Alabama Magazine, whose specialty is pictures showing Eleanor Roosevelt being civil to Negroes. Simpson campaigners vigorously lambasted Lister Hill as a traitor to Southern ideals, a tool...
Another Administration victory was recorded in Alabama's Fifth Congressional District when labor-baiting Representative Joe Starnes, the Dies Committeeman who once proposed to investigate Playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) as a Communist,* was defeated by State Legislator Albert Rains. The C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, which had been quietly undermining Starnes in war-booming Gadsden (pop. 36,975) indulged in no loud boasting. Its prime target is lumbering Martin Dies himself, who must fight for his job in Texas' Second District next July...