“CONGRESSMAN TOM HEFLIN’S TILT WITH WOMAN SUFFRAGE LEADER FEATURES BARBECUE” Montgomery [AL] Daily, c. 1915 “Congressman Tom Heflin has returned to his home from Wetumpka, AL where he delivered the principal address before the crowd of several thousand gathered to participate in the big barbecue held there yesterday. The congressman is glad to be alive [...]
0 comments“I sweated over my introduction, rewrote it ten times. When I had finished, this, in part, was the text: “There were Alabama Bankheads in one or another of the houses of Congress for sixty consecutive years. My father was Speaker of the House for four years, served with that body for twenty-five. My grandfather, John, [...]
0 commentsAs we look over the country today we see two classes of people. The excessively rich and the abject poor, and between them is a gulf ever deepening, ever widening, and the ranks of the poor are continually being recruited from a third class, the well-to-do, which class is rapidly disappearing and being absorbed by [...]
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