Word: alabamans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Petey Sarron, a homely, 29-year-old Alabaman of Syrian descent, has been the National Boxing Association's champion since he outpointed Freddie Miller in Washington last year. Negro Henry Armstrong, 24, has been recognized as champion in California since he knocked out the New York State Athletic Commission's Champion Mike Belloise, although the Commission still recognized Belloise because his bout with Armstrong was scheduled for ten rather than 15 rounds. Thus when Boxer Belloise, ill in The Bronx, was persuaded to exchange his championship claim for the promise of a return match, all Henry Armstrong...
...TIME, Oct. 11, you speak of an Alabaman. There is no such word. The spelling in universal practice in our State is Alabamian...
College has always been as necessary to Hal Kemp, North Carolina '26, as a pair of rubbers to an elderly professor of Greek. An Alabaman nearing his 33rd year, he organized his first dance orchestra at the University of North Carolina about 15 years ago. That band would play anywhere for $32.50 an evening. Skinnay Ennis, Saxie Dowell and Ben Williams were in that band. It won a college dance-orchestra contest sponsored by a vaudeville circuit, played before the Prince of Wales in England as a prize, and from then on it was "varsity...
...Coates or any other Alabaman thought he could shame torrid Tom Heflin he did not know old Tom. Not only did Tom Heflin contest the election; he fought it all the way back to the U. S. Senate; he buttonholed his ex-colleagues until they granted him extraordinary permission to state his case on the floor of the Senate, which he did for 5½ purple hours- in vain. In 1934 he swallowed his pride, ran for Congressman from the Fifth Alabama District, the comparatively lowly job he had held for eight and a half terms (1904-21) before...
Politically, the almost indisputable evidence of Black's Klan affiliation, means, according to the publisher, that millions of hard-won Negro votes are permanently lost to the Democratic party, provided no way is found to force the Alabaman off the high tribunal. Further many large-city groups in the North will lose faith in the New Deal, he said, and such a revulsion of feeling, will, if the Republican party is strong enough, be reflected in the 1938 Congressional elections. "The Roosevelt strategy," he said, "at the present time, is to do absolutely nothing about the matter, and concentrate...