Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republic Steel Corp. announced that its Alabama coke production would...
...great deal better than the citizenry knows. Mistakes, hard names, quarrels make more headlines than peaceful progress. Any Congressman could make the front pages any day by standing up and calling Harold Smith a waster and a no-good. But when, at the end of his Appropriations Committee testimony, Alabama's Joe Starnes said, "I think you are doing a swell job, Mr. Smith," nobody bothered to report...
...last week the Senate stood in recess. North Carolina's Joe Bailey and Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar stayed on the floor. But most Southern members were conspicuously absent. Escorted by a committee of four, including Alabama's Lister Hill, a slender, smiling Negro entered the Senate chamber, mounted the rostrum. The members of his party were ushered to their seats. Then Vice President Henry Wallace introduced him: "Members of the Senate, ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you the President of Liberia...
...produced five alternatives to the Finance Committee-endorsed Ruml bill, all designed to soften the blow of new taxes or increased tax rates on the mass of voters, by some measure of doubling up on 1942 and 1943 tax payments. They were sponsored respectively by Senators from Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and two from Texas. (Average per capita income in these four states in 1940 was respectively $395, $315, $257, and $411, against a national average...
...there. So had Senator Styles Bridges, Louisiana's Congressman James Morrison, a major general, an archduke, industrialists, and a host of other Washington characters, known & unknown. Host of the house on R Street was one James Porter Monroe, dour, bald, and effusive. Hostess was a Mrs. Eula Smith, Alabama-born, tall, sedate, aloof...