Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broker, and Eugenia ("Nini") Woodward Jelke, 27, Alabama socialite; after a sensationally disgusting trial in Newport, R. I. Grounds: that both were guilty of extreme cruelty. Jelke's allegation that his wife was guilty of infidelity because she kept secret trysts with a mysterious major at the notorious Birmingham flat of a "Madame" Ethel Hartman was denied. The statements of Mrs. Hartman, who had been paid $5,200 for expenses to testify for Mr. Jelke and then testified for Mrs. Jelke instead, were discredited by the Court. The alleged misbehavior of Mrs. Jelke and one Robert White of Manhattan...
...Bennett and his wife separated. Two years later he met Dorothy Cheston, actress in the Birmingham Repertory Company. Since his wife would not give him a divorce, Bennett and Actress Cheston lived together openly as man & wife. In 1926 their daughter Virginia Mary was born. Bennett describes the event very characteristically: "I went up to Welbeck St. [the hospital] at 9.30 and saw the child at 10 a. m., two hours old. She weighed 8 Ib. 1 oz. and had a big head...
...Billy Bayne, left-handed pitcher for the Memphis Chicks of the Southern Association: a no-hit game, in which no batter got a base on balls; 8-to-o against the Birmingham Barons; at Memphis. ¶ The Navy crew, using the shell with which the 1910 varsity won the Olympic Championship: the Adams Cup race, with Pennsylvania second by 1/5 sec. (about 3 ft.), Harvard third; on the Charles River, at Cambridge, Mass...
...John was plain Professor Cadman of Birmingham University, a hardworking, little-known expert on coal and oil. Coal was in his blood. His people were Staffordshire coal miners for generations and giving him a scientific education was their idea of lifting him above his ancestral trade without removing him from it. Professor Cadman's first connection with oil was while doing research for the Scotch shale industry. The British Colonial office sent him to Rumania and Burma on oil expeditions. The War made him Chairman of the Inter-Allied Petroleum Council and technical adviser in the development...
...Chicks 5-to-4. Manager Joe McCarthy was disgruntled by the failure of his batters to hit minor league pitching. Two days earlier he had been appalled when Pitcher George Pipgras who had done better than anyone else in training at St. Petersburg, lasted only four innings against the Birmingham Barons...