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Alabama. Governor-elect Bibb Graves shares the office of Governor William W. Brandon, famed poker player with a faithful Negro servant (TIME, Dec. 6), for the 20 days preceding the inauguration on Jan. 17. They both wish to watch the legislature's special session. Never before has Alabama had sharing Governors...
Whether or not Governor William W. ("Plain Bill") Brandon of Alabama had "openers"* will never be known, for at that particular moment last week a deputy sheriff and raiding party rudely interrupted the gubernatorial poker game at McQueen's Camp near Magnolia Springs, Ala. Behind the Governor's chair the intruders found a half case of whiskey, and in the room he occupied with several friends there was a suitcase which clinked and gurgled mischievously. In all, 13 quarts of mellow liquor were confiscated. The Governor and his eight companions were arrested, appearing voluntarily at jail...
Alabamans recalled that Governor Brandon had been elected four years ago on a platform calling for rigid enforcement of the Prohibition laws, but that in office he had pardoned many liquor violators. Then too, as everyone knows, his was the voice that boomed untiringly before the 1924 Democratic National Convention in Manhattan: "Twenty-foah votes foah Un-da-wood...
...that same Oscar W. Underwood, Senator from Alabama, whose name rolled off the tongue of Governor William W. Brandon in 1924, was also heard from last week. He has changed his hopes and wants to hear a new cry from Alabama in 1928: "Twenty-foah votes for Alfred Emanuel Smith." Said he: "Governor Smith could win over any candidate the Re publicans name. It may be hard to nominate him, but he is our most available man. He is highly qualified for the Presidency and the fact that he is not in sympathy with the 18th Amendment...
...would have his approval); John V. Mahan, National Commander, and a delegation of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War to ask the President to attend their convention in Atlanta next June; Governors Brewster of Maine, Hardy of Florida, Groesbeck of Michigan, "Twenty-four-votes-for-Underwood" Brandon of Alabama, to lunch and to ask the President to attend the next conference of Governors to be held either at Mackinac Island (Michigan), or at Cheyenne; Socialist Congressman Victor Louis Berger of Wisconsin to ask the President to restore rights of citizenship to Eugene V. Debs (see POLITICAL NOTES); Senators...