Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been expected, as a onetime Foreign Secretary and half-brother of Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, to felicitate His Majesty's Government on the "mission to Berlin," abruptly thrust the notes for his speech back into his waistcoat pocket and rushed off to the Chamberlain stronghold of Birmingham...
Last week in Birmingham Judge Grubb granted the injunction, holding that TVA's power plans far exceeded any reasonable surplus that might be generated in connection with flood control, navigation or national defense. He expressly avoided passing on the constitutionality of the Tennessee Valley Act itself but he did find its chief activity most certainly illegal. Excerpts from his oral opinion...
Journeying up to Birmingham for the week end, Chancellor Chamberlain addressed his family's ever faithful constituents. They could safely ignore, he counseled, ugly rumors that out of the recent ruin of prominent London pepper speculators there would soon erupt a British Stavisky scandal involving financiers and statesmen. Pooh-poohed the Chancellor of the Exchequer: "The pepper crisis has been cleared up, and I don't think there is as much as a sneeze to be heard in the City today...
Chamberlain of Birmingham punctured the ballooning rumor that David Lloyd George was about to be given a Cabinet portfolio by National Government in an effort to get the votes he is drumming up by his loud "New Deal" proposals to restore British prosperity by lavish public works (TIME, Jan. 28). Coldly, simply, Chancellor Chamberlain said: "The policy of providing public works always fails, and our past experience in this respect has been no different from that of other countries which have tried...
...being asked by the courts, the legislatures, and individuals. It is a healthy sign of a nation's returning to a way of rational thinking, devoid of the supercharged emotionalism and propaganda that has characterized the past few years. On Friday, Judge Grubb, of the U.S. District Court in Birmingham, Alabama, termed the sale of power by the T.V.A. illegal. Moreover, he granted a permanent injunction which will prevent 14 cities from borrowing P.W.A. funds "to provide a market for T.V.A. power...