Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the Civil War, did the North protest against the renowned patrol work of the Alabama, in the lend-lease arrangement between the South and the British? If so, was Lincoln a Copperhead...
...excellent cross-section of sentiment was obtained since the Negroes participating hailed from New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama and Oklahoma, and the Niemans, who originated the seminars from Tennessee, South Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and California. Nathan G. Caldwell of Dunster House, a Nieman from Nashville, Tenn., served as chairman...
California is the leading State in the production of English walnuts. Alabama and Mississippi produce pecans. But now South Dakota gets into the race and proceeds to show us what a real nut is. I quote from the March 24 issue of TIME: "Adolph Hitler is a German heman and the greatest warrior that this world ever produced since history was first written and to be candid I believe he is a holy man." This letter was written from Custer...
North of Abbeville, where the blacktop road bites into the red clay of eastern Alabama like a suture in raw flesh, the Fourth Division's Reconnaissance Troop halted. They climbed stiffly down from armored scout cars spaced a precise 25 yards apart, pushed goggles back from windburned, dusty faces, dug in reefer pockets for cigarets. Motorcyclists propped their machines on stands, squinted appraisingly at engines. The long-legged, flat-backed Troop Commander brushed oil-stains from his face with a reddened hand and walked back along the column, to see how things were...
...public attention. Birth-control clinics are still illegal in only two States; contraceptives may now legally be sold in all but two.* According to a recent Gallup Poll, 77% of U. S. citizens favor dissemination of birth-control information through Government health clinics. Three States (North and South Carolina, Alabama) include contraception in their public health programs. With its 612 clinics doing a land-office business, the Federation, always hard-pressed for funds, is eager for other State health services to take over...