Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairman's job would be grinding. Fortnight ago new threats against New Deal leadership again cropped up. Alabama's Governor Frank M. Dixon, champion of "white supremacy," called for a secession of Southern Democrats. In Omaha, Democratic leaders of nine Midwestern States organized a "united farm front"-without consulting top party chiefs. Onetime Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring, one of the few top officials ever fired by Franklin Roosevelt, sounded off for a new "agrarian party...
...world's sermonizing record is held by the Rev. James Jefferson Davis Hall, 79, a lively, white-goateed, Alabama-born Episcopalian...
...picture has its Woolley moments, however. One of them comes when Monty, as a department-store Santa Claus, sucks "Alabama fog-cutters" (cocktail of unspecified ingredients) through a tube from a hot-water bottle concealed under his suit, and suddenly roars at all the kiddies and mammas: "How I hate you, one and all!" Another occurs when he stares coldly at an unwelcome female admirer (Sara Allgood) and remarks: "I have no idea what bearing it may have on your plans, but I now propose to remove my trousers...
Recovery. Only a little less remarkable has been the growth of the surface U.S. Navy in the year since Pearl Harbor. Besides the North Carolina and the Washington, commissioned in 1941, probably four new battleships, the South Dakota, Indiana, Massachusetts and Alabama, have joined the fleet by this time. The "biggest-ever" (45,000 tons), 30-knot Iowa was launched, in August, her sister ship New Jersey this week. These big, new, cruiser-fast battleships differ from the old Pearl Harbor ships as a Flying Fortress differs from a B18. Other signs of naval recovery...
When the Fund's work began, there were only 29 Negro public health nurses in the South. Now there are 341. The Fund has helped place Negro physicians as health officers in the health departments of North Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Alabama, New Jersey, in six city health departments, in the federal Children's Bureau and the U.S. Public Health Service...