Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fans in turn, were busily forming amateur Hot Clubs in New Haven, Birmingham, Boston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. They were modeled after the group of more than 1,000 English, German, French and Dutch clubs formed a decade ago for the practical purpose of purchasing and pooling "hot" records from the U. S. In the U. S. the purpose of the clubs is to revive old masterpieces, organize "jam sessions" like Goodman's Chicago concert, discuss their hobby in terms which often sound like highflown nonsense...
...Monsell forgot happily all about the London Naval Conference which is doubly deadlocked (TIME, Dec. 30). Monsell's second daughter is learning Tibetan and had many interesting things to tell. The hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Chamberlain did not go home to gloomy Birmingham, but holidayed in Dorking with a large and merry party. Up in Scotland the superstition that one's New Year will be unlucky unless the first person across one's doorstep is a dark-haired man. kept dark-haired Dominions' Secretary Malcolm MacDonald busy making New Year...
...like Henry Clay and Daniel Webster got off some of their finest flights of eloquence at its bar. Nowadays, the nine hard-pressed old men who sit on the Supreme bench have no time to listen to oratory, demand facts. Last week Forney Johnston, 56. a New Deal-hating Birmingham attorney, known for his acid courtroom flings, got a lesson which was enough to send every prospective Supreme Court pleader in the land skittering in search of a blue pencil...
...Fourth Southwide Southern Baptist Training Conference in Birmingham counted on Dr. Kagawa making another flying trip South. Other Southern and Eastern cities had him down for addresses before he was to appear, early in February, at another co-operative meeting in Kansas City. The Illinois Council of Religious Education was listed for a speech by the convert Christian who has written more than 50 books, many of them Japanese best sellers...