Word: birmingham
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Melvin Alvah Traylor, President, American Bankers' Association, to Alabama Bankers' Association convention at Birmingham: "In former years when it was difficult for people living in outlying communities to get to larger centres, and many towns and villages in sparsely settled regions had to depend more or less upon their own resources, small and under capitalized banks may have been a necessity. At the present time there is no such excuse. The automobile has made it possible for even distant towns to keep in close touch with larger centres and there is no justification, in my opinion...
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Taking his share of the capital and "handsome profit" derived by the sale of the Birmingham Age-Herald (TIME, March 21) Frederick I. Thompson, publisher of all the newspapers in Mobile, Ala., last week bought an Evening Times, and thereby became publisher of all the evening newspapers in his state's capital, Montgomery. He merged the Evening Times with his Montgomery Evening Journal. Publisher Thompson's onetime partners in Birmingham, onetime Governor Braxton Bragg Comer and son Donald Comer, were not associated with him in the new purchase, their interest in newspapers having been purely industria-political. Save...
...outskirts of sooty Birmingham is ivy-clad Drayton Manor, whereon a halo of fame has grown for more than a century. Drayton Manor, as all good Britishers know, was the home of Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), than whom there was no more revered statesman in the 19th Century. His ancestors, sprung from Yorkshire yeoman stock, potent in a rising industrial era, Tory to the core, saw in him the future leader of the Tories. A scholar and a football player, he entered Parliament. A smart young man, he established the Irish constabulary and the London police.* But some...
...Young studied medicine at the University of Birmingham. When he had taken his degree he took a position as ship's doctor in order to see the world. At the outbreak of the war he obtained a commission in the medical service, was speedily promoted to the rank of Major, and saw service in South and East Africa, where his experience formed the basis for many of his stories...