Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traveled, reserved, clean-shaven Staffordshire native, 61 years old, who walks from two to five miles for a breakfast appetizer, speaks phonograph-taught French. As plain John Cadman, he devoted his life to coal, gas and oil, spent twelve years' professorship of mining and petroleum technology at Birmingham University before he became head of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd. and was raised to the peerage. When a British M.P. last year accused the Government-backed Imperial Airways of being "the laughing stock of the world," Lord Cadman was named as a disinterested layman to head a committee...
Several times before Anthony Eden had taken this kind of thing in silence. Last week he acted, went from London to Birmingham, famed political stronghold of the Chamberlain family, and there made a speech to 2,500 young Conservative constituents of the Prime Minister which was a direct thrust at Neville Chamberlain...
...gentry forebears and his Eton background, hates Business and being "businesslike," whereas strongly Middle-Class Townsman Neville Chamberlain is the embodiment of Business. The British aristocracy do not always live up to their principles, do not claim to-but they have them. It was Eton which cried out against Birmingham last week when Orator Eden brought 2,500 young Conservatives cheering to their feet with his words: "It is not by seeking to buy temporary good will that Peace is made. ... If we are to have Peace in your time, it means that in any agreements we make today there...
...city in which the C. I. O. unsuccessfully entered the mayoralty election with a direct endorsement of a losing candidate was (1 New York, 2 Birmingham, 3 Newark, N. J., 4 San Francisco, 5 Detroit...
...When he arrived in Alabama to enlist in the U. S. Army in 1917, barely 25 miles from his birthplace he was arrested for the third time because a deputy sheriff was suspicious of the foreign stickers on his luggage. After the war, Oliver Carmichael taught French in a Birmingham high school, was nosed out as a candidate for Congress in 1920, became president of Alabama (Women's) College (1926-35), then went to Vanderbilt as dean of the graduate school and senior college...