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Word: birmingham (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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What English constables call their "truncheons" became clubs with a vengeance last week as jobless men were beaten back and down in London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Croydon, Westham and North Shields by what Victorian novelists used to call "the arm of the law in blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Truncheon Charges | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...Knowle station he learned to his horror that he had been misinformed about the Birmingham-Brighton Express. It did not stop at Knowle. John Guthrie Sutherland stomped out to the middle of the track, raised his brolly and began to wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Brolly | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

Because his lease stipulated cancellation if his earnings were impaired by an act of God. Paul G. Forthy of Birmingham, Ala. vacated when the Depression whittled down his income. He was sued by his landlord. Judge Arthur Jenkins last week ruled that the Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ruling | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

Judge William Irwin Grubb of Birmingham, Ala., member of Wickersham Commission LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Experiment Surveyed | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

Free-Trader David Lloyd George, then Prime Minister, plucked Lord Mayor Chamberlain from Birmingham and brought him on the national scene as Director of National Service (1916-17). At the last British election (TIME, Nov. 9), the Conservative machine which Neville Chamberlain had overhauled obliterated Mr. Lloyd George? and rolled up for the Conservative Party the largest majority ever won by any British party: 472 seats out of the House total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Chamberlain's Budget | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

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