Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comer. Far less comforting was a third speech. Donald Comer comes from an old Alabama family whose Barbour County plantation, after growing cotton for a hundred years, is now a profitable stock farm planted to clover, grasses, corn, legumes. No farmer himself, Donald Comer is chairman of Avondale Mills, one of the South's large cotton consumers...
...epidemic struck with full force in the Carolinas, Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas. In Atlanta, Ga. flu kept 20,000 children from school. Schools were closed in 16 counties in North Carolina...
...Highly dangerous and explosive in inexperienced hands. --Alabama Industrial Collegian
...Grover Hall who broke the power of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama. Back in 1927, when both Alabama Senators were members of the Klan, and Governor Bibb Graves was inclined to ignore frequent floggings, Editor Hall tore into the Klan tooth & nail, ended by forcing Klansmen to unmask. For his attacks on racial and religious intolerance he won a Pulitzer Prize...
...loyal friend of Franklin Roosevelt was Editor Hall. When Willkiecrats goaded him last summer, he would cry: "Why, Roosevelt built the house I live in!" From that same house last week Grover Hall was taken, stricken with a hemorrhage from stomach ulcers. When transfusions were needed, Alabama's Governor Frank Dixon, Advertiser employes, hundreds of Editor Hall's friends offered blood. They were too late. Two days before his 53rd birthday Grover Hall died...