Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unanimously nominated and elected lanky Harvardman Charles B. Glenn, Superintendent of Schools in Birmingham, Ala., as president for 1937-38. Mr. Glenn's platform: "I'm not one of those who feels he has got to save the world. Our main purpose is to elevate the profession...
Meanwhile in Birmingham, the separate Heavy Industry Section of the British Fair is inspected without incident by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester...
...Dartmouth ski team: the 27th Dartmouth Outing Club winter carnival (slalom, downhill, cross-country racing, jumping) from McGill, Montreal, a team of Swiss students, Maine, New Hampshire, Amherst, Harvard, Yale; on total team points. Carnival Queen, chosen by three doctors from the college infirmary, was Florence Allen of Birmingham, Ala., who had never before seen snow...
...followed by French Premier Leon Blum, who as a Socialist and a Jew doubly hates the Nazis. And last week the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, inflexible Neville Chamberlain, who is perhaps to become the next Prime Minister after the Coronation in May, told his constituents at Birmingham: "Tomorrow Herr Hitler is expected to make an important speech. ... As the leader and spokesman of one of the most powerful and influential nations of Europe he has got it in his power to make an invaluable contribution. ... I am quite certain his words will find a warm response in this country...
...prope annis septuaginta natus sum.)* Birmingham...