Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four men had accomplished a gigantic legislative squeeze. Lobbyists Earl Smith of Illinois and Ed O'Neal of Alabama and Congressmen Clarence Cannon of Missouri and Everett Dirksen of Illinois now had the Administration, the Congress and some five million farm operators in a tight vise...
States that should have given the most gave the least: New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Alabama, the District of Columbia. The five highest contributors on a per-head basis were Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Washington. The New Jersey per capita average was a mere 1.67 lb.; Nevada patriots averaged...
...president of Alabama Power Co., Thomas W. Martin, knows much of Southern Regions (a 603-page book) by heart. Alabama's Governor Frank M. Dixon is said to have studied it in preparation for taking office. A well-thumbed copy stands beside the Bible in many a local sheriff's office. It inspired at least ten other major books (e.g., Gerald Johnson's The Wasted Land). It also won the distinction of being banned by Georgia's gallus-snapping Governor Eugene Talmadge. Thanks to Dr. Odum, Southerners talk frankly and learnedly about once unmentionable taboos: hookworm...
...they no longer commanded respect; instead they seized upon the press. Louisiana's Representative F. Edward Hebert warned darkly: "Unless something is done to curb that section of the press which holds in ridicule the keystone of democracy . . . our whole system of Government is going to collapse." Alabama's Senator John H. Bankhead accused disrespectful newspapers of "sedi-tious conduct," cried for a Justice Department investigation...
...been made to equip the whole U.S. urban population with masks, as has been done in Britain, "until the present frontiers change." And the whole foul problem hung in delicate balance: the civilian frontier might not change for the duration. Axis as well as Ally feared the terrible retaliation. Alabama's Senator Lister Hill demanded masks for all industrial workers- and soon. The Army had established civil defense courses on five campuses (Amherst, Texas A. & M., Stanford, Florida, Maryland)-and the courses featured gas instruction. Good Old Mustard. U.S. armed forces publicly recognize 16 chemical warfare agents. None...