Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Written by a Post-Gazette Reporter named Ray Sprigle, the first article in the series told that Supreme Court Justice Black had put on his white robes to take the Klan oath in the Klavern of Robert E. Lee Klan No. 1 in Birmingham in 1923; that in 1925, more than a year before the Senatorial primaries in which he defeated anti-Klan Senator Oscar W. Underwood, Hugo Black got Alabama's Grand Dragon and Great Titans to pledge him their support for the U. S. Senate; that the next step in the Black campaign was to write...
...speeches Der Führer went on the eve of the Congress to Nurnberg's annual command performance of his favorite opera, a five-hour unabridged performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, heard his favorite tenor, soulful-looking Eyvind Lahome (nè plain Victor Johnson of Birmingham, Ala.). Despite Der Fuhrer's frequent blasts against the U. S. in general, Herr Hitler applauds U. S. Citizen Lahome in particular as the ideal interpreter of Walther the Wagnerian knight, has awarded him the rare State title of Kammersänger. Freely Der Führer admitted last week...
...satisfied. Topeka. Mobile, Salt Lake City and six other cities installed, then removed meters. Last week City Manager H. F. McElroy of Kansas City, Mo., which has 1,400 meters, snapped: "The meters solve none of the parking problems." In Alabama, where 500 meters were installed in Birmingham last September, motorists took the case to the Supreme Court, which outlawed meters as "an unauthorized exercise of the taxing power...
David D. Wells, Birmingham, Alabama--Ramsay High School, Birmingham...
...Hugo Black knew what was in it and Senator Black's knowledge was hours old. The nomination fell as a bombshell to the press if not to the nominee, whose previous experience on the bench consisted of a year-and-a-half as a "boy judge" in Birmingham's police court. That was in 1910, three years after he had left poverty-bitten Clay County with $1.20 following the burning of the law office young Hugo had managed to set up when he graduated from the University of Alabama Law School...