Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occasion. A denim-clad curator goose-stepped visitors in, goose-stepped them back to the door, giving them the Nazi salute. The pictures on show included charcoal drawings of hefty nudes, portraits of young, haughty Nazi soldiers (Adolf Hitler was not on display), sardonic drawings of Alabama shanty homes, scenes of the African battlefield, sketches of their stockade...
...Alabama, in search of oil since 1870, sank some 200 wells without success before the first producer came in last February, in Choctaw County, 75 miles northwest of Mobile. By last week there were three small producers, and almost every acre in 15 counties was under lease to big oil companies...
Since post-Reconstruction days, Negroes have been excluded - for one reason or another - from Democratic primaries in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina, Arkansas " and Georgia. During the past 17 years, usually with prodding by the N.A.A.C.P., the U.S. Supreme Court has passed on four cases designed to abolish "white supremacy" in Southern voting. Three times the determined South has been able to retain its white poll supremacy. In last week's ruling, the fourth, the Court said: Dr. Lonnie E. Smith, Negro dentist of Houston, must be allowed to vote in Texas' Democratic primaries. Hastily...
...candidate for reelection: Senator Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith of South Carolina. He told his constituents: "All those who love South Carolina and the white man's rule will rally in this hour of her great Gethsemane to save her from a disastrous fate." In a fourth state, Alabama, white supremacy had already become a dangerously bitter issue. Against well-to-do, balding Senator Lister Hill, the 100% New Dealer who nominated Franklin Roosevelt at Chicago for Term III, up rose well-to-do, tall James Simpson, a corporation lawyer who decided to load his biggest campaign guns with...
...voters and thinkers; neither has much influence on the floor. Montana's Burt Wheeler, diehard Roosevelt hater, is a formidable individual fighter. But the real leaders are Kentucky's Barkley, Georgia's Walter F. George, Virginia's Harry Byrd, North Carolina's Josiah Bailey, Alabama's John Bankhead, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar and Texas' Tom Connally. These are all veterans who feel that the deference due their long Party service has been withheld by Franklin Roosevelt and his brain-trusters. All are men of the Old South, which has been shaken...