Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark, gloomy Luis Muñoz Marin, president of Puerto Rico's Senate, paid a call at the White House, was ushered into the anteroom of Franklin Roosevelt's military aide, Alabama-born Edwin ("Pa") Watson...
...consort Prince Felix gave a reception. Guests were Cabinet members, Ambassadors, Government officials, other bigwigs. But the guest of honor was a stocky, middle-aged man with a long face and a white-toothed smile who has never held any diplomatic post above that of charge d'affaires: Alabama-born George Platt Waller, for ten years consul and charge d'affaires in Luxembourg...
...Alabama's State Prison at Wetumpka opened a beauty parlor to improve morale, teach trades to women prisoners. Last week there was a riot among the 300 women (210 of them Negroes) when one was told she couldn't have her nails manicured. When the screaming and scratching ended, Warden J. Curtis Weldon Sr. gave five white women prisoners their choice of seven lashes apiece or loss of prison privileges for 60 days. They chose the flogging, which the warden administered himself. Alabama's Governor Dixon promptly fired the warden...
...seven-year-old controversy had almost been forgotten. In 1934 in the midst of a wave of public righteousness Hugo LaFayette Black, then Senator from Alabama with a preternaturally sharp nose for scandals, "exposed" the mail-carrying airlines of the U.S. Black charged that Walter Folger ("High-Hat"*) Brown, Postmaster General under Herbert Hoover, had granted lush mail-subsidy contracts to major airlines, had thus evaded the law requiring competitive bidding for Government contracts. The President did not wait to ask questions. He called in Postmaster General Farley, Attorney General Cummings, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Secretary of War Dern. Then...
...Georgia's Governor Eugene Talmadge, who recently called all out-of-State professors in Georgian universities "foreigners," the Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Ala. sent a fancy, gold-sealed, round-trip "passport" certifying him as "a free citizen . . . permitted to enter the State of Alabama...