Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals plunged into a fence near Birmingham when a bumblebee flew into his car, distracted him. Muttered Pitcher Dean, falling into bed with his pet Scottish terrier, while his automobile was repaired: "Batters like Wally Berger. Mel Ott and Paul Waner aren't in it with...
...University of Alabama trustees, searching for a new president to succeed retiring George Hutcheson Denny, last year wrote to Newton Diehl Baker for advice. Replied the onetime Secretary of War: "If your Board could find in Birmingham or elsewhere in Alabama, a lawyer of about 40, of known scholarship, who was willing to begin a new career. . . ." Preparing last week to take up his duties as Alabama's President Jan. 1, was just such a man, baldish, scholarly Lawyer Richard Clarke Foster, 41, of Tuscaloosa, fourth generation Alabama alumnus...
Happy steel executives were predicting an operating rate of 85% before the year end. U. S. Steel Corp. proposed to share its Pittsburgh prosperity with Birmingham, Ala., by announcing a $29,000,000 tin palate mill for its subsidiary, Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. Cheered were Pittsburgh police when they picked up a 20-year-old California vagrant who explained his presence: "I heard there was a boom in Pittsburgh...
Though the Preaching Mission declined to sound off in the press, when its members arrived in Birmingham a few days later they showed pleasure at the inclusion on one program of Dr. Channing Tobias, national director of Negro Y. M, C. A. work. Obliged by municipal ordinance to sit in separate sections, Birmingham Negroes gladly attended meetings, shouted "Amen" and "Glory Be!" The No. 1 Missioneer, Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, led off the opening meeting: "Constantly I remind myself that the Romans said, 'these Britons make the most unlovely, thick headed slaves we have here. . . . No good will ever...
...tongues" has long been vivid reality. In recent years the taking up of serpents has gained equal favor. Two years ago in Sylva, N. C. a rawboned mountaineer named Albert Teester let himself be bitten by a rattlesnake, became gravely ill, recovered (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). Soon in Birmingham one female and three male Holy Rollers safely handled a rattler from which, it later was revealed, the fangs had been drawn at the behest of their Rev. Dewey L. Dotson. Famed in the rural districts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia is George Hensley, a cracker parson who has been...