Part two of a serialized memoir of a bygone Mobile: a rookie account executive discovers that all three of the men above him at the downtown brokerage have a drinking problem.
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Sell 200,000 Bushels: The Mobile Surgeon Who Traded Soybeans From the Operating Room
Part ten of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: a Mobile eye surgeon ran enormous soybean positions from the operating table, and made his broker the top producer in the office.
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St. Patrick’s Day, 1952: How a Mobile Sportswriter Wandered Into the Brokerage Business
The first installment of a serialized memoir of a bygone Mobile recalls a 31-year-old juggling three jobs who walked into a downtown brokerage office next door to the liquor store.
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Nobody Rings a Bell at the Top: A Mobile Brokerage’s Bear Market Revolt
Part eleven of a memoir of a bygone Mobile: a brutal 1962 bear market, a boss who berated a broker on the morning his mother-in-law was dying, and the plot that followed.
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Newcomer Outraises Veteran 10 to 1 in the Special Election for Mobile’s District 7 Council Seat
First-time candidate Rick Collins raised $31,600 to John Peavy’s $2,800 in the opening filing period of the 2004 special election for Mobile City Council District 7, left vacant by Stephen Nodine.
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Retired Republican Judge Endorses the Democrat in the Race for Juvenile Court
Retired Mobile County Circuit Judge John Butler, a Republican who spent 22 years overseeing juvenile court, endorsed Democrat Jeff Glidewell over the GOP incumbent appointed to succeed him.
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Hap-pening or Hap-less? A Senate Retirement Rumor Freezes the Field in District 34
State Sen. Hap Myers said in August 2004 he would likely seek a fourth term, a signal that scrambled the plans of would-be successors in Alabama Senate District 34 ahead of the 2006 election.
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Riley Appoints Nodine to Vacant Mobile County Commission Seat Days After Runoff Win
Gov. Bob Riley appointed Mobile City Councilman Stephen Nodine to the vacant District 2 seat on the Mobile County Commission in July 2004, days after Nodine won the Republican runoff.
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Runoff Money: Nodine and Buffkin Empty the Tank Before the June 29 Vote
Final campaign finance reports before the June 29, 2004 runoff showed Stephen Nodine and Ralph Buffkin each spending more than they raised, leaving both nearly broke on the eve of the election.
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‘That Ronald Reagan Smile’: A Mobile Woman’s Inaugural Ball Encounter With the 40th President
As the nation mourned Ronald Reagan in June 2004, a Mobile woman recounted how persistence, Southern charm and a sympathetic Secret Service agent let her press a medal into the president’s hand in 1981.