Word: tuscaloosa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tuscaloosa, Ala., a family council of kin of Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth Scott, 75, who had just died of pneumonia, decided to bury her in Little Sandy Cemetery near her Taylorsville home five miles away. Bitterly her son Hugh, 57, World War veteran protested that her dying wish had been to be buried in nearby Nazareth Cemetery. Overruled, he stalked into the night. Near dawn he returned, burst in among the kinsmen keeping the death watch, brandished a shotgun, picked up his mother's body and ran outside. He flung the body across the pommel of his horse...
...they will see portly Dr. James Somerville McLester, 58, of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Ala. installed as president of A. M. A. Like Dr. Bierring and other American doctors of their age, Dr. McLester, when a medical student the last decade of last century, was excited by the flood of bacteriological discoveries then pouring from the laboratories of Germany. With a medical degree from University of Virginia, he spent a year abroad, returned to become professor of pathology, then professor of medicine in Birmingham Medical College. After that College had become the postgraduate department of the University of Alabama, Dr. McLester...
...days before his book was scheduled to appear in Tuscaloosa bookstores Critic Cason sat in his office after hours, thinking over what he had written. Had he been too extreme? Would his neighbors consider him a renegade? Had he jeopardized a pleasant life for the doubtful fame of writing a controversial book? Finally Critic Cason found the answer. He put a revolver muzzle to his mouth, pulled the trigger...
Died. William Woodward ("Plain Bill") Brandon, 66, onetime (1923-27) Governor of Alabama; of brain hemorrhage; in Tuscaloosa. He won national notice by the thunderous booming of his voice, when, as Alabama's delegate to the 1924 National Democratic Convention, he led off 103 consecutive ballots with the cry: "Alabama casts 24 votes for Oscar W. Underwood...
Author Carmer went to the University of Alabama, near Tuscaloosa, as associate professor of English. He was greeted hospitably, despite the fact that he was born in New York State. On his first evening in Tuscaloosa he made the acquaintance of the Southern vin du pays, corn whiskey. He never learned to like it, calls it "as vile and as uglily potent a liquor as ever man has distilled." One day in class he made the innocent mistake of comparing Tuscaloosa's picturesqueness with a North African city. "On the next day six serious young men waited upon...