Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majority Leader Alben Barkley the filibuster was not the most serious Southern reaction to his allowing an anti-lynching bill to reach the Senate floor. Because he faces a Senatorial primary in Kentucky next August he left Washington and the filibuster to attend a testimonial banquet in his honor at Louisville's Brown Hotel. Governor A. B. ("Happy'') Chandler, who was put into office with Alben Barkley's help, declined to attend. Instead popular "Happy"' Chandler was given a luncheon the same day, at which he announced his willingness to serve Kentucky "in any other...
...cases involving the constitutionality of an act of Congress. Serious, bespectacled Judge Florence Allen of the Circuit Court of Appeals came first.* Stocky, white-haired District Judge John J. Gore and earnest District Judge John D. Martin followed. Since November 15 they had been hearing the plea of 18 Southern utility companies that the Tennessee Valley Authority be enjoined from the sale of electric power and the TVA Act be declared unconstitutional...
Damage Without Injury. Immediate aim of the suit, which Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell P. Willkie and his associates had planned as a last stand in the three-year-old legal fight against TVA, was to stop the sale of electricity generated by the three TVA darns already built (including Wilson Dam started during the War and transferred from the War Department to TVA in 1933); to restrict de-velopment of four dams now under construction and a fifth authorized but not yet begun; to prevent TVA from getting Congressional funds for four more dams. TVA attorneys maintained that...
...since more than a year ago when crowds of milling Englishmen chanted "We want King Edward!" had stodgy Downing Street seen such a demonstration. Thousands of London's Irishmen and Irishwomen packed the pavement before the black door of No. 10. The rousing strains of southern Ireland's republican anthem, A Soldier's Song, swelled from the lusty throats. Staid civil servants in black jackets and striped trousers poked their heads out Whitehall's windows. Suddenly the singing ceased. "Up Dev!'' roared the crowds. "A republic-no less!" A tall, gaunt, smiling man appeared...
...Southern Ireland has 26 counties, Ulster...