Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David Day Wells of Birmingham, alabama, from Ramsay High School, lives in Thayer...
...candidates for the degree of M.A. in Teaching) to Richard M. Clark, Molrose; Roderick H. Cox, Birmingham, Michigan; Herbert A. Crosman, Lishon Falls, Maine; Williams Donually, Los Angeles, California; David A. Grodberg, Worcester; George Keoler, New Rochlle, New York; Francis N. Magliozzi, Somerville; Walter J. Nickerson, Jr., West Chester, Pennsylvania; Everett H. Perkins, Bantam, Connecticut; Raymond J. Perry, Malden; and George B. Simon, Newton Centre...
Southern lynchings customarily end with the death of the mob's victim. Last week's reverse lynching had a reverse ending. To a Birmingham hospital went Negro Alvin Hill, seriously wounded by two .45 calibre bullets. Into a Birmingham jail five hours later strolled Clarence Higginbotham, white proprietor of the "Bloody Bucket." He confessed to the shooting, said he had been afraid Hill and three Negro companions were going to try some of that "lynch stuff...
...Supreme Court office staff Associate Justice Black last week got Leon Smallwood, a Negro Catholic, as his messenger, chose Anne Butt, a Catholic, for his secretary. Day the Court convened (see p. 17), Jerome A. Cooper of Birmingham was appointed his law clerk. A statement issued through the Supreme Court mentioned that Lawyer Cooper "is of the Jewish faith...
Last week came evidence to prove that Tom Heflin's infinite persistence merited not sympathy but admiration. A quick question from the Birmingham News & Age Herald's Russell Kent caught Attorney-General Homer Stille Cummings off guard, forced him to admit that Mr. Heflin had been doing some kind of nebulous work for the Department of Justice since July 1936. Salary: $6,000 a year. The New York Sim's Phelps Adams dug deeper, learned just how much old Tom had to suffer in his supplication for jobs: after six months on the payroll...