Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early English printers is represented by two volumes, one printed in 1699 by Jacob Tonson of Cambridge, the other put out by John Baskerville of Birmingham one year later...
Geoffrey Leonard Stagg, of Birmingham, England, 2G, has been awarded the Joseph Hodges Choato Memorial Fellowship, for the year 1935-36, carrying $2000 of the largest fellowship stipends offered at the University, it was announced today...
...until a few years ago was politically nobody. Born in Clay County. Ala., Hugo Black never finished secondary school, never went to college, though in 1906 he was graduated with honors by the University of Alabama's law school. He spent brief periods as a police judge in Birmingham, as a county prosecutor, as a captain of the 81st Field Artillery. In 1926 the late Oscar W. Underwood, disgusted with Alabama politics, announced his retirement from the Senate. Unknown Hugo Black was the dark horse in a five-man primary for the Underwood seat. Without any prominent support...
...freed a thousand slaves, involuntarily lost the rest of his property in the Civil War. Trained only for leisure, Aubrey Williams' father turned to manual labor, became a notably unsuccessful blacksmith. Son Aubrey went to work at 6 in a torpedo factory, at 7 became cash-boy in a Birmingham department store...