Word: alabaman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speaker Bankhead's 63rd birthday, the Wagner Act's Constitutional "birthday", the President telephoned the Alabaman: "Many happy returns of the day to you, and incidentally, it's a pretty good...
...Tisdale, a big, florid Alabaman of 45, is director of Du Font's new anti-pest laboratory which was formally opened last week in the suburbs of Wilmington, and of which the formal name is Pest Control Research Section, Grasselli Chemicals Department, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. A handful of newshawks assembled in the gleaming Nemours building, lunched with Lammot du Pont, who shook each one's hand, spent the afternoon in the battleship-grey laboratory, wound up at the Hotel du Pont...
Third-best liar was Mrs. C. B. Forman of Attalla, Ala. Her tall one: A whirling cyclone blew the knot out of an Alabaman's four-in-hand tie, whipped the tie around a greeting card and Christmas package which it delivered to the Alabaman's cousin in the next county...
...more aware of the inadequacy of NYA than Aubrey Williams. A lanky, kindly Alabaman, Director Williams believes the plight of U. S. youth will not brighten without undefined "changes in the economic structure." In Manhattan last autumn he declared that NYA had "gotten off to a very bad start." that he did not know what to do about it (TIME, Oct. 28). Giving New York's NYA a second start last week at the rate of $4,000,000 a year. Director Williams gloomily observed...
Cliff Day had gaveled for order; a collection of $600 in nickels and dimes had been taken up in a tin wastepaper basket to pay for the hall; an Alabaman had made it clear that "this trip is of our own planning" and a South Carolinian had pledged "we have come to praise and not to condemn" when the nation's No. 1 Farmer stood up to address "the finest farm meeting I ever attended." Amid a storm of happy hog-calls, that agricultural editor and corn-raising expert, Henry Agard Wallace, began by proposing the "reelection of Theodore...