Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brockton, Mass., Ku Klux Klan meeting last month where Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, was making his customary speech for hire against the Roman Catholic Church, somebody threw a bottle. It missed the Senator but hit and cut his police bodyguard...
...episode passed off as just another of the periodic Heflin exhibitions, with this difference: this time, in the State which has become identified with its senior Senator, the Alabama Women's League for White Supremacy promised to try to terminate the Heflin Senatorial career at next year's election...
...deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues of cedars, and shaded with willows and live oaks and linden, were planted with white flowers-Cape jasmines, bridal wreath, white japonica, sweet alyssum and white althea. In the strange white radiance of Alabama moonlight white flowers-Cherokee roses, the night-blooming cereus, moon flowers and honey-suckle-were sweeter than at any other time. . . . "Yet, against all that tenderness of beauty, in spite of an apparent transcendent peace, the intense heat bred its intensity of emotion, a dangerous bitterness of conviction, hatred together...
Aboard the S. S. Ancon from Panama, where a drinking spree had placed him in hospital, arrived in Manhattan last week James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin Jr., 28, son of the resounding Alabama Senator who professes mortally to hate and fear alcohol and the Pope of Rome. With the young Heflin was Senator Tom Connally of Texas. Obviously befuddled by the Prohibition question, Junior Heflin gabbled convivially with ship newsgatherers until Senator Connally took him to his cabin and locked him in. Upon the pier Junior Heflin announced: "I want to see Al Smith. My father...
Suggested Alabama's hopeful Heflin: "We might at least find out how they robbed the farmers...