Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite all the traditional hocus-pocus of bands and bunting, platform committees and "keynote" oratory, the forms and panoply had no more meaning than they had had at Philadelphia, before Wendell Willkie and his freshening forces swept the Republicans' fog away. To the Convention's keynoter, Alabama's William Brockman Bankhead, the 1940 campaign seemed to be nothing more than a necessary footnote. Said he: "The minds of the American people are now so deeply engrossed in . . . the preservation of our established order of life and institutions, that they will have no tolerance for the superficial banalities...
Consensus of the opinions of these Louis intimates: "Joe is a big, likable kid, but not too bright," spendthrift, sleepy, easygoing as an Alabama field hand. Marva Louis told how nonsmoking, nondrinking Joe frittered away fabulous sums of money on cab fares and cabaret checks for his friends. Trainer Jack Blackburn admitted that Joe didn't care much, one way or the other, about fighting. From newspapers and court files Earl Brown traced Manager Roxborough's connections with the numbers racket, Manager Julian Black's impressive police record. Some of the more lurid facts about the Louis...
...unashamed contradiction, both Messrs. Taft & Dewey have claimed the majority of delegates in Indiana, Kentucky, Montana. Alabama, North Carolina, Tennessee, Wyoming. Both have claimed votes in Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, although these States had selected more than one Republican delegation, faced seating contests at the convention. Many a Republican State boss still sat mum on the sidelines, planned to use his quota of votes to make an effective deal at the convention, or toss them on to the band wagon as it rolled...
...buildings, widely separated to cut down damage from explosion. Memphis businessmen calculated that when the mill begins operations about Oct. 1 it will employ around 5,000 workmen, may well be giving work to twice that number when it gets into full production on Jan. 1. To Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi cotton growers the plant water also good news because explosive for Allied guns will require thousands of tons of cotton and cotton linters (waste from ginning operation) as well as chemicals and some wood pulp...
...Georgia cracker Sam Dabney and his sister Honoria, a burlap knock-off of Scarlett O'Hara, start at the bottom and work their way up. Also involved in these 816 pages are Tecumseh, the Natchez Trace, the cotton gin, the Battle of New Orleans, the opening up of Alabama and Mississippi. For readers to whom vivid frontier data is cheesecake, there are enough exposed bosoms,-vengeance motifs and brutalities to go round...