Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles A. Brownell, 79, long-time dean of Detroit advertising men, president until 1912 of Brownell & Humphrey (sold out to J. Walter Thompson), advertising manager for Ford Motor Co. (1912-18), manager with two sons of the Ford State agency in Alabama; in Birmingham, Ala. He wrote some of the first automobile advertising copy when cars used tillers instead of steering wheels (Oldsmobile, Packard, Northern which later became Studebaker...
Convict James Birmingham-Blake wanted me to say I saw Jersey make signs. I told him I didn't want anything to do with...
...driving rain at Birmingham, Alabama's John Cain and Tennessee's Beattie Feathers had a punting duel. Cain's kicks averaged 48 yards to Feathers' 43. but he made one bad one, behind his own goal line. Tennessee took the ball on the 11-yd. line and Feathers carried it across for Tennessee's touchdown...
Observers, scanning similar (though less grave) riot reports from Birmingham, Birkenhead. Croydon and other centres concluded that as winter comes the British jobless are getting mass-ugly, losing what trust they had in the MacDonald National Government, turning again to the British Labor Party which last week held its annual congress (see below...
Eagles fly high and newspaper history is made fast in Mobile, Ala. Less than five years ago Ralph Bradford Chandler left the Birmingham Post (Scripps-Howard), descended on Mobile, began publishing the Press (evening) in competition with the Register (morning) and News-Item (evening), both owned by Col. Frederick Ingate Thompson, onetime member of the U. S. Shipping Board and an unsuccessful Senatorial aspirant in 1930. Last February Publisher Chandler got control of both Thompson papers, killed the News-Item, settled down to enjoy his monopoly. From Florida, last week, came a competitive threat...