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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...
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...
...Birmingham, Ala., Miss Iva Cook noted that no Alabaman was a member of Wisconsin's famed Liars' Club, wrote a letter to the club president explaining that Alabama contains no liars. By return mail Miss Cook received from the Liars' Club an honorary life membership...