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...Scottsboro Boys, the original charge was rape in a freight gondola, the ultimate issue was Alabama justice. Of the nine Negroes accused, four were acquitted, four sentenced to long jail terms, one sentenced to death (TIME, April 20, 1931, et seq.). Last week Alabama justice yielded another inch. Governor Bibb Graves commuted the death sentence of Clarence Norris, now 25, to life imprisonment. In Manhattan, the International Labor Defense, which in 1933 brought in Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz to defend the Boys,* declared: "The boy is innocent. This doesn't close the case. We will go ahead until...
...convicts gathered around the radio in the model dairy of Montgomery, Ala.'s Kilby prison. Reason: Mr. Duskin, their colleague, under a 36 to 60-year sentence for borrowing 850,000 from his former clients, but on parole since last July, had been granted permission by Governor Bibb Graves to fly to Manhattan unguarded for the broadcast. The keynote of his speech: "The most important thing in life is freedom. Freedom to get out under the blue sky ... to look up at the stars at night...
...Heflin's chief liability was the loud and bigoted clownishness he displayed in both houses of Congress for 27 years. Lister Hill, reported candidate of Governor Bibb Graves's machine, had as his chief liability a zealous New Deal enthusiasm that led him last session to break with his southern colleagues over the wages-&-hours legislation. To voters Tom Heflin roared, "Send me to the Senate and I'll see that they don't pass the anti-lynching bill." But the idea of sending Tom Heflin back to the Senate for any reason whatever, according...
Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves says, "I'm no authority for spelling, but I always leave out the i." But the State historical documents use Alabamian...
These revelations probably bothered paunchy, white-vested Tom Heflin not at all. He was back in Alabama, working feverishly against the day next year when Mrs. Dixie Bibb Graves's term in the Senate expires, when the electorate may possibly put Tom Heflin on the payroll again for six long years at $10,000 per year...