Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...striking proof of England's desire and need for a monopoly. Ghandi had two and half million spinning wheels manufactured and distributed throughout India,, this cutting off most of the English monopoly on cloth. It is only necessary to look at the unemployment situation today in Manchester, Birmingham, and the other great English mill towns, to understand the economic importance of India to England...
...Henry U. Sims, LL.B. '97 of Birmingham, Ala, lawyer...
President Harding evidently dropped a bombshell at Birmingham. Communications have swamped the metropolitan dailies, and the notorious race problem is the topic of the hour. Not that everyone has not always known of its existence, but that no one has dared to speak of it as such. For this the President is to be congratulated: he is apparently not afraid to speak out when be thinks it necessary. He is the first Chief Executive since the beginning of the century who has cared to speak definitely on a subject which is as liable to prove a boomerang as a bomb...
...course the employees of the roads are protesting any reduction, as a matter of principle: there will be much loud talk and threatening; and strikes, perhaps, such as the one now trying up the Atlanta, Birmingham, and Atlantic. Nonetheless, the roads are preparing to hold out to the end with courage of desperation. The Eric has quietly ignored the order of the Railway Labor Board to restore the previous schedule, at the risk of arousing public opinion against it. Likewise, the Pennsylvania has announced that it is paying $1.07 for the services which bring in $1.00, and that, with...
...third class of producers consists of the very small companies which are engaged only in serious work. These are beset with many difficulties, but do accomplish a great deal. The Birmingham Players, who have a repertory theatre in London, have produced about one hundred and sixty plays in the last ten years...