Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tanned under his crumpled white hat, the President fished calmly in the Pacific. Far from calm was the Senate. As irritation mounted, Colorado's Johnson, Nevada's McCarran, Indiana's Van Nuys, South Carolina's Smith, Iowa's Gillette, Alabama's John Bankhead, issued statements ranging from plaintive pleading to desperate threats. Saturday Congress had stopped even pretending to keep its mind on its work, cocked an ear to Springfield, Ill., kept an eye on the ticker for a flash from the Panama Canal Zone...
...northern Canada brought in a week of sleet and rain, of wintry winds that ruined the tomato crop of the lower Rio Grande, killed cattle in the Kissimmee Valley of Florida, and spread a blanket of snow over the red clay of Georgia hills, over the pine woods of Alabama and the low Louisiana marshlands. Snow fell at Laredo on the Mexican border, beginning one midnight and falling until 5 the next morning, to the wonder of the natives; in San Antonio it fell gently on the adobe houses, on the cactus and the palm trees, on the children...
...hours in the mines; murdered by company thugs; murdered, too, by union gangs whose internecine wars reddened the rise of U. M. W. A. and John Lewis. And at home last week in Glenalum, Sarah Ann and Carbondale, Black Lick and Conemaugh, in coal towns from Nova Scotia to Alabama, were the 600,000* members...
...sense of what is fitting, in the best meaning of the word, is an invaluable attribute of a writer. Among other good qualities, it is one that James Still seems to have achieved. Born 30 years ago in the hills of Alabama, brought up in Tennessee, educated at Vanderbilt, Still has written some modest but unmistakable poetry (Hounds on the Mountain). River of Earth is his first novel. The problem it fairly solves is that faced by many Southern novelists: how to be sectional without being affected. The horizon in River of Earth is limited to Hardin County, Kentucky, simply...
...from high school, she got a job in the Hackensack office of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and for eight hours a day, at least, put her mind on card files and customers' complaints. That was where James Steward first saw her. He was the advertising manager, a graduate of Alabama University, 22, quiet and reserved. Jessie's brown eyes stopped him in his tracks...