Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consideration before the House was a $2.1 billion housing bill authored by Alabama's progressive Congressman Albert Rains (the Senate had already passed a $2.6 billion housing bill...
Rayburn's aides marshaled the Democratic troops. Telephones jangled all over Capitol Hill. Every Democrat was polled, cajoled, threatened. Majority Leader John McCormack paraded the fence sitters up and down the corridors, arguing endlessly. Alabama's Rains took a nose count, thought he smelled victory. "I tell you those Democrats are really burning," said Republican Whip Les Arends. "They are really putting the heat...
...Luther King. But last week in Florida, Columnist Henry Balch thundered in the Orlando Sentinel (circ. 100,000): "As soon as you pick up the book, you realize these rabbits are integrated. One of the techniques of brainwashing is conditioning minds to accept what the brainwashers want accepted." In Alabama, State Senator E. O. Eddins agreed: "This book should be taken off the shelves and burned." Off it went from the regular shelves of the Alabama Public Library Service Division, and onto the closed shelf reserved for works on integration or those considered scatological (circulation by special request only). Indeed...
Once again the South is threatening to bolt from the Democratic party. Five southern states, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas are planning to refuse to bind their Presidential electors to the national party ticket. This is obviously a first step in creating a Dixiecrat movement in the Southern states that stand firmly against the Supreme Court integration decree...
...plug for a $50 million-a-year international medical-research bill (see MEDICINE), spry Boston Heart Specialist Dr. Paul Dudley White, 72, enchanted a Senate committee with a stethoscopic tour of Biblical history. "Heart disease," he said, "probably killed Adam." "I thought original sin killed Adam, Doctor," murmured Alabama's Lister Hill. White: "I believe that heart disease is our fault and not 'God's will.' " But what about Eve? asked West Virginia's Jennings Randolph. "Eve escaped," said White, warming to the topic. "Ladies have a great advantage with respect to coronary thrombosis. They...