Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When interviewers lately sought out Mrs. Charles E. Williams in her modest apartment over a backyard garage in a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., her first remark about her son, Assistant Federal Relief Administrator Aubrey Willis Williams, was: "He's a self-made...
...James Somerville McLester of Birmingham, ingoing A. M. A. president and crack dietary expert, drew respectful attention when he declared: "The American people are acutely food conscious and will eat anything they are told is healthful. The cheaper cereals can be used as the mainstay of the diet, provided properly selected supplementary foods, such as liver and lettuce, are added in suitable amounts. Because of its high supplementary value in a diet of cereals as well as of other foods, a place must be provided in the household budget for definite quantities of milk and milk products. Even with today...
...they will see portly Dr. James Somerville McLester, 58, of Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Ala. installed as president of A. M. A. Like Dr. Bierring and other American doctors of their age, Dr. McLester, when a medical student the last decade of last century, was excited by the flood of bacteriological discoveries then pouring from the laboratories of Germany. With a medical degree from University of Virginia, he spent a year abroad, returned to become professor of pathology, then professor of medicine in Birmingham Medical College. After that College had become the postgraduate department of the University of Alabama, Dr. McLester...
...requests for several amendments to its basic act. One amendment would increase TVA's right to issue bonds, guaranteed in principal and interest by the U. S., from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000. Another would enable it to get around Federal Judge Grubb of Birmingham, Ala. who had ruled that TVA's authorization to sell surplus power did not give it the right to go into the general business of selling electricity and electrical appliances (TIME, March...
...odds were a mistake. The stocky, 38-year-old Birmingham dentist who was his opponent in the final won the championship in 1927. An awkward stylist who plays his shots like a dub trying to cure a slice, with his left foot far in front of him, William Tweddell was able enough last week to finish the morning round only three down. In the afternoon Little kept him waiting at the tee and then out of embarrassment at this faux pas began to play sloppy golf. The doctor started creeping up and at the 30th hole, the match was even...