Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sharp for the past several months has been antagonism between two Bishops who at last week's convocation inevitably met. One of these is the Rt. Rev. Ernest William Barnes, "liberal" Bishop of Birmingham, the other is the Rt. Rev. Michael Bolton Furse, Bishop of St. Albans, stormy conservative. Said Bishop Furse when he saw Bishop Barnes: ". . . He claims liberty for himself and others in freedom of belief and refuses to allow that freedom of belief to be expressed in certain ways by us who, he says, made concessions to religious barbarisms." Interjected the Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang...
Rumor added that Commonwealth & Southern planned also, to trade shares with Birmingham Electric Co., of Alabama, one of the Electric Bond & Share group...
...Birmingham, England, Madge Gunner, governess, complained last week that her first fiancé, a Wartime officer, was killed by a rifle grenade; her second, an aviator, fell to death three days before the wedding; her third, an engineer, was struck by a crane and died; her fourth died two days before the marriage...
...Birmingham...
...Even narrower than Lady Astor's was the squeak of immaculate, bemonocled Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary of the Baldwin government. In the West Birmingham constituency which his late great father, "Joe" Chamberlain, pillar of Liberalism, established as a family vote-preserve, Sir Austen heard he had a lead of only 50 votes over his Labor opponent. Incredulous, he demanded a recount. His lead then shrank to 43. In contrast, Sir Austen's humbler young halfbrother, Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Minister of Health, won what the London Times called "the most outstanding Conservative personal victory," a majority...