Word: alabama
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Died. Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, 81, fabulous utilitycoon; in Manhattan. In 1929 he was one of many men called "richest in the world." The tall, broad-shouldered Annapolis-man ('83) grubbed an Alabama cotton patch as an orphan of twelve, at 24 built the first hydroelectric plant west of the Rockies. Founder of the colossal Electric Bond & Share Co., he originated many holding-company principles and strategems, was a prime mover in the ornate pre-depression financial structure of U.S. utilities...
...Listless Lawyer. By 1905 Holland Smith, 23, graduate of Alabama Polytechnic Institute and the University...
...Alabama, had practiced law for two years. That was enough for him. He took down his shingle, said good-by to his mother & father (also a Montgomery lawyer), went to Washington. There he told Congressman Ariosto A. Wiley of the Montgomery district that he would like to try for a commission in the Army. Back came the answer: no Army vacancies, but the Marines could use another second lieutenant...
During his training at the Annapolis "Schools of Application" (where civilians were turned into officers), Marine Smith met Ada Wilkinson of Phoenixville, Pa. at a dance. In 1909, when he returned from the Philippines, he married her, despite the anti-Yankee doubts of the Alabama Smiths...
...Alabama Born. Long ago, on their plantation near Montgomery (Ala.), Mr. & Mrs. John Crommelin decided that Southern boys need discipline. John Jr., their eldest, was sent off experimentally to the Naval Academy. The experiment worked, so one by one the other boys-Henry, Charles, Richard, Quentin-were launched in John's wake...