Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mostly the fight was purely and simply over poll taxes, with conservative Southerners attacking. Mississippi's John E. ("Silent John") Rankin called the bill: "A monstrosity. ... It is part of a long-range communistic program to change our form of government and our way of life." Cried Alabama's Sam Hobbs: "The worst thing since Reconstruction...
...Springs-depending on which side held the hotel-this resort nestling in the Alleghenies had already been famed for half a century. Its great colonial hotel, known familiarly as The White, had been built a decade earlier. Before that there were rows of cottages-Paradise Row for the newlyweds, Alabama and Georgia Rows for the rich from those States, Wolf Row for the bachelors...
...Army squad, culled from the 1,500 recent varsity players now in khaki, is split into two task forces: Eastern and Western. The Western group is coached by Major Wallace Wade, whose Alabama and Duke teams have been picked for the Rose Bowl five times. The Eastern group, under Colonel Bob Neyland-another football mastermind whose bone-crushing Tennessee teams won 30 straight games in 1938-39-40-will start its four-game series against the New York Giants Sept...
...Week after TIME'S story the Petroleum Industry War Council's report to the President gave Alabama a 10,560,000-lb. collection-a per capita average of 3.73 lb. Accepting Governor Dixon's much higher figure, which makes his State about average, TIME gladly credits Alabama with a job well done...
Americans read the names of the boys who made the first big U.S. air raid on Europe, the bombing of Rouen. One of them, Lieut. Thomas Borders, 25, of Birmingham, had played tackle on Alabama's 1938 Rose Bowl team. The list sounded like the roster of an Ail-American eleven...