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Unlike the great planters and white trash farther north, the white men of southeastern Alabama are neither very rich nor very poor, work harder than their Negro help and run to rugged individualism. In that section is the drowsy market town of Dothan (pop.: 16,000) and the combustible newspaper family of Hall which won the Dothan Eagle three generations ago in a draw poker game. Slim, red-headed Editor Julian Hall, 33, is a first-rate newspaperman, an Alabama "character," a humorist of distinction. Under the Dothan Eagle's heading, Editor Hall daily prints the Biblical quotation...
...cheers when Governor Graves finally vetoed the bill. Last fortnight the cheers turned back to howls when it appeared that the Governor had waited one day too long to veto the bill which had automatically become the law of Alabama. Other Alabama editors just howled, but not the Dothan Eagle's young Editor Hall. On his front page appeared an editorial to make Dothan citizens rub their eyes...
Senator Heflin's flat anti-Smith declaration was saved up until last week at Dothan, Ala., a town with a newspaper (the Eagle) which has said: "Oh Heflin . . . Oh Hell!" Cried the Senator, "I will vote against Al Smith, so help me God!" and exhausted most of his time with his well-known Anti-Catholic tirade...
...Buffalo, N. Y.; Ernest Frederic Knauth Jr. '24, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Charles De Von La Follette 2G.B., of Thornton, Ind.; Clair Thomas Leonard '23, of Needham Heights; Charles Robert Paine '23, of Eagle Grove, Ia.; Kendall Bailey Rowell 2E.S., of Waltham; and Joseph Peter Wilson 2G.B., of Dothan...