Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egged on by a righthanded Alabama pitcher named Frank Lary, the Detroit Tigers have turned into a team of raging rebels. Fairly foaming at the very sight of a Yankee, the American League's spring patsies have become summer terrors, clawed the Yanks seven times in a row, pushed their season record to eight-out-of-twelve over the league champs. Lary himself has accounted for half the victories. ¶Before the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta started, the Cornell varsity was known as the best nonwinning crew in the nation. When the regatta ended, every Big Red crew...
...Alabama the Democratic Party last week pledged itself to the brand of extremist politics that has been rife in the South since Little Rock. Items: EURJ In the runoff primary for Governor, Attorney General John Patterson, 36, piled up a record vote to defeat Circuit Judge George Wallace by 64,388 even after Patterson had been unmasked as the favorite of Ku Klux Klan leaders and had made a public appeal for the votes of Klansmen. Opponent Wallace, himself an unhooded knight of white supremacy, first attacked Patterson for his K.K.K. ties, then shut up when he saw that...
...narrow (39 to 33) edge to the states' rights extremists. The new committee promptly repealed the loyalty oath by which state party candidates, including presidential electors, are pledged to support the candidates of the national party. Purpose: a warning to Northern Democrats and everybody else that the Alabama party is ready to go Dixiecrat again on the civil rights issue...
...filed suit against the United Auto Workers for $50,000 damages. He charged that U.A.W. picket lines prevented him from driving to work at Decatur's Wolverine Tube Division of Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Co. plant, sued for five weeks' wages and punitive damages. The Alabama Supreme Court, reversing the lower court, ordered a trial. A jury awarded Russell...
...rolling green hills of Alabama, a ceremony took place last week that would make the most ardent exponent of Protestant-Catholic amity polish his glasses. Roman Catholic St. Bernard College, founded and staffed by Benedictine monks, was ending its first academic year of accreditation as a senior college with a solemn High Mass in the stadium, commencement exercises, blessing of class rings. The odd thing about it was that of the 494 St. Bernard students, 394 were Protestants-most of them Bible-belt Baptists...