Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each of the eight Southern States sanctioning the poll tax, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, a small, self-perpetuating group or class holds political control, nominating their candidates for public office while the other two-thirds of the voters have no say in the matter. This minority has entrenched itself in power in each of these States and will go to almost any extreme to maintain the status quo--their present jobs and their unchallenged political supremacy. To have the poor farmer and laborer get the vote would be to sign away their power...
Most U.S. plants restrict concerts to lunch periods and between shifts, but in many a factory tunes penetrate the clatter of machinery. When the battleship Alabama slid off the ways at the Norfolk Navy Yard, she had become known as "the rhythm ship'' because her welders, riveters and fitters were spurred on by recorded music ranging from symphonies to boogie-woogie. In Botany Worsted Mills' vast Passaic, N.J. plant (khaki for uniforms), light melodies rise above the din of weaving machines and shuttles for periods of five to 25 minutes, six times...
...Alabama. The sudden death of Bibb Graves (TIME, March 23), who had been certain to be elected Governor again, turned the primary from a formality to a fight. Five candidates who never had a chance now knew that one of them would win. Likeliest: Judge Chauncey Sparks, runner-up in the last primary...
Died. David Bibb Graves, 68, twice Governor of Alabama (1927-31; 1935-39); of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. He was the only Alabama Governor ever to serve two full terms, was preparing, when he died, to campaign for a third. He was nicknamed "the Klan Governor" when he first took office, later dropped his Ku Klux membership. When ex-Klansman Senator Hugo Black went to the Supreme Court bench in 1937, Graves appointed his wife to fill the vacancy...
...dinner in Washington, sponsored by the New Republic to celebrate the ninth anniversary of the New Deal, a group of high-up New Dealers (including Mr. Justice Hugo Black, Senators Pepper of Florida, Mead of New York, Hill of Alabama, Murray of Montana, Sidney Hillman, et al.) heard Attorney General Francis Biddle. He declared that the New Deal had been successful "because it is a political party tied up with the labor movement under an able political leader...