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When Alabama's poliomyelitis ("polio") epidemic intensified, Governor Bibb Graves ordered all inmates in State institutions to be given an immunizing nasal spray (picric acid + sodium alum), made it possible for State employes to have the same treatment for 10?. Taking advantage of his own proposition, Governor Graves called Dr. H. G. Camp, Chief State Prison Physician, into his office, had his own nostrils well flushed...
...which each state tried to outdo the rest in promises of victory. Sixty-one minutes after the demonstration began Senator Robinson informed the demonstrators that they had broken all endurance records, had exceeded "the estimate." Drunk with their own zeal, the delegates could not stop. Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves was turned loose before the microphones to make what was presumably a seconding speech into a sea of sound...
...loaded his bombshell with many a charge of what in the South was authentic editorial dynamite. He derided the Ku Klux Klan. He came out for Negro rights. He sympathized with poor-white tenant farmers. He lambasted Prohibitionists. He took to task the paternalistic Mill Village system of potent Bibb Manufacturing Co. For such activities Editor Ethridge was tagged an outstanding U. S. Liberal...
...Hebrew. Forsaken was played on the chimes. Two vocalists sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. Finally the organist thundered out Beethoven's Funeral March. Only half the throng of 200 who heard and beheld this impressive funeral service were Jewish. The rest were Negroes, friends and relatives of Henry Bibb who had died at 72 after serving for 47 years as Temple Israel's janitor...
Though Janitor Bibb's dust also was given the final blessing of the African Methodist Church, he was a member of neither sect which honored his memory. Reverently Rabbi Isserman declared: "His psalms were his services faithfully rendered and his prayers were his scrupulous conscientiousness. . . . There was almost an ecstatic rhythm in his dusting of the pews...