Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent press lords, Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere, men of fierce patriotism but as easily enraged as small, spoiled boys. What the Conservative Party needed and what it has had increasingly in recent months has been the cold, hard, managing head of a CHAMBERLAIN?that mighty name from Birmingham...
...could most certainly not have overhauled the whole Conservative Party machine, oiling grievances and rubbing off bumblerust. His husky voice would scarcely have had the authority to bring those bad boys, the Press Peers, to their basically Conservative senses. Finally, without his family's name and prestigeous relations with Birmingham Mr. Chamberlain could not have applied the pressure necessary to make Mother Free Trade Britain change her middle name to High Tariff...
CHAMBERLAIN stands first for Birmingham's late, great "Old Joe," a hawk-nosed, bemonocled power in and behind several Victorian cabinets (though never Prime Minister). This elegant Parliamentarian whose daily orchid fascinated the House, lost the first two of his three wives after they bore him respectively...
Sent by his father to Rugby, to Mason College, Birmingham and to a sweaty job of plantation management in the Bahamas, worthy Neville seemed to have about fulfilled his Chamberlain destiny when he returned to Birmingham and after five years of local political plodding became its Lord Mayor during...
...Standard Race Journal") is known as "a good little sheet." Its circulation of 14,000 is exceeded by at least ten other Negro papers. Editor William Alexander Scott Jr., 29, founded the Atlanta World four years ago, founded also Southern News Syndicate serving thrice-weekly Worlds in Memphis, Birmingham, Columbus (Ga.), Greenville (N. C.). Like all other Negro papers it concerns itself solely with news of or affecting Blacks. In its first daily issues it exhorted its readers to vote against the recall of Atlanta's Mayor James Lee Key (TIME, March 28) because he had supported bond issues...