Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That afternoon at Birmingham, seat of rebellion against TVA, a crowd which jammed the railroad yards heard him call upon the populace, which voted solidly against public ownership of the city's light system year ago, to overrule "obstructionists, few in number in comparison with the whole population [who] are leaving no stone unturned to block and harass and to delay this great national program...
...Birmingham, Ala. last week a Federal Judge ruled that NIRA was unconstitutional. Last August a Federal Grand Jury indicted W. E. Belcher, who owns saw mills at Centerville, Plantersville and other Alabama towns, for paying his men less than 24? an hour, for working them more than 40 hours a week. Mr. Belcher's lawyer filed a demurrer. If Federal Judge William I. Grubb had decided against the defendant, U. S. v. Belcher would have been sidetracked into the District Court of Appeals for trial. But after a conference with lawyers for both sides...
...House of Commons last week Labor Party Leader George Lansbury stormed for 40 minutes against "this greatest menace to individual liberty! It would incriminate the Bishop of Birmingham for his sermons against British bombing of helpless tribesmen in Afghanistan. Indeed, what possessor of a copy of Our Savior's blessed Sermon on the Mount would be safe? He might use it to seduce a simple sailor...
Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellowship: Geoffrey I. Stagg, 1G, of Birmingham, England...
...Vitamin C. After long search for raw material from which the vitamin could be mined in quantity, Szent-Gyorgyi turned to the paprika beds near his home in Hungary and in one day obtained a half-pound of his acid. In March last year, Professor Walter Norman Haworth of Birmingham. England determined the vitamin's constitution, and in August he, and Swiss chemists in Zurich. independently synthesized Vitamin C from a ketonaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. Now the pure substance is produced as colorless crystals in Swiss and British laboratories at 3¢ per gram...