Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Macon, Ga., Miami and Tallahassee, Fla., and a number of smaller communities. In Grand Dragon Green's home town, the fight against him had been led by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Council of Churchwomen and leaders of Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary and other civic clubs. Reported Alabama's (Negro) Tuskegee Institute last week: "The better element of whites is against [the Klan] and Negroes are no longer afraid...
Pasadena, California, Horace N. Gilbert, of California Institute of Technology; Birmingham, Alabama, Robert S. Winslow, of The Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York; Nashville, Tennessce, James S. Frazer, Jr.; Minneapolis, Minnesota, William A. Barnes, Jr.; and Washington, D. C., Roy J. Bullock of Federal Home Loan Bank...
Born. To James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 40, hulking (6 ft. 8 in., 250-lb.), clowning governor of Alabama, and Jamelle Moore Folsom, 22, former secretary in the Alabama State Highway Department: their first child (he has two daughters by his first wife who died in 1944), a son; in Montgomery, Ala. Name: James Elisha Jr. Weight...
...flying-saucer idea sank into the public mind, all sorts of mysterious swooping things were reported. Policemen in Portland, Ore. saw discs that looked like 'shiny chromium hubcaps." Two pilots n Alabama saw a huge black object bigger than an airliner. A man in Oklahoma City saw a "saucer" as bulky as six 6-B29s. A prospector in the Cascade Mountains saw six discs that made the needle of his compass gyrate wildly. Little children saw little discs. Two kids in Hamel, Minn, reported that a dull grey disc two feet across had come right down between...
...July, two Eastern Airlines pilots flying over Alabama met a "wingless aircraft, 100 ft. long, cigar-shaped and about twice the diameter of a B-29." Dazzling blue light glared from its windows, and long orange flame streamed out behind. It shot past the airliner at a speed one-third faster than common jets...