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...Alabama's New Dealing Senator Lister Hill called on his state to "follow the admirable example set by Georgia" (TIME, Feb. 12) and repeal the poll tax. His proposal was 1) cheered by editorialists, 2) ignored by Alabama legislators...
...fought loudly and bitterly by men who are normally his most loyal wish-followers in Congress. These include Pennsylvania's noisy Joe Guffey and Montana's wealthy, leftist James E. Murray. They also count on support from Utah's Elbert D. Thomas and Alabama's Lister Hill, as well as two freshman Senators-Warren Magnuson of Washington and Brien McMahon of Connecticut. Somewhere in the background was the ambitious C.I.O. Political Action Committee. Even further back was the man the C.I.O. has picked as a potential leader of the junta and a potential 1948 Presidential candidate...
...list of those Senators who won without a struggle is studded with internationalists: Alabama's Lister Hill, Arizona's Carl Hayden, Arkansas' James William Fulbright, Florida's Claude Pepper, North Carolina's Clyde Hoey-Democrats all; plus G.O.P. Internationalists George Aiken of Vermont and Leverett Saltonstall of Massachusetts...
Help. In Washington, D.C., Alabama's Senator Lister Hill got an S O S from his daughter, a message saying, "Call Mamie at once or she may quit. Love, Little Henrietta." The Senator immediately phoned his cook, in Montgomery, Ala., persuaded her to stay...
...malaria, to liquidate the household fly, cockroach and bedbug, to control some of the most damaging insects that prey on the world's crops. Lieut. Colonel A. L. Ahnfeldt, of the U.S. Surgeon General's office, exclaimed last week: "DDT will be to preventive medicine what Lister's discovery of antiseptics was to surgery...