Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother. This was in Kent in the '80s. At school he used to tell stories to his mates that would last weeks, months, terms. There was no money to send him to college and his father tried to cure the boy's fever for yarning. But even in a Birmingham brassworks he jotted notes and spun tales at lunch hour. It lost him his job, but the fights he fought made red blood for his heroes and villains. Once he had to climb up through a 120-foot chimney on a bet and fight a man when he came down...
These papers were: Akron Press, Baltimore Post, Birmingham, Post, Cincinnati Post, Cleveland Press, Columbus Citizen, Denver Express, El Paso Post, Evansville Press, Fort Worth Press, Houston Press, Knoxville News, Indianapolis Times, Memphis Press, New Mexico State Tribune, Oklahoma News, Pittsburgh Press, San Diego Sun, San Francisco Daily News, Terre Haute Post, Toledo News Bee, Washington Daily News, Youngstown Telegram, Kentucky Post...
Speaking at Birmingham, the political seat of the Chamberlain family, Sir Austen incautiously gave the impression that he expected to attend the special session of the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations, called for March 8, with complete freedom to offer British support to the candidacy of Poland and that he would very probably do so if "circumstances" seemed to warrant...
...Prince. At Birmingham, most celebrated of British industrial centres, Edward of Wales visited the local Trade Fair and stepped upon a pair of scales to oblige their maker. The pointer spun, stopped at 137 pounds, to the satisfaction of the Prince who has tapered off his meat lately, lest he grow fat, and his drink, lest his tendency to nervousness increase. He is said to be "setting the fashion for modest four-course dinners...
...Kuhn, Loeb & Co. But the Interstate Commerce Commission must approve such a merger.* The Frisco has two principal lines, which cross at right angles. One starts at St. Louis and extends southwesterly with its fork reaching into Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Another line extends southeasterly from Kansas City to Birmingham, Ala., where by arrangement with the Southern Railway it makes connection with the 147 miles of the Muscle Shoals, Birmingham & Pensacola, of which the Frisco recently got control. This branch gives it tappage to the present Florida flood of shipments. The main line of the Rock Island runs from Chicago...