Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the American Red Cross ("Still the Greatest Mother in the World") set up headquarters in Birmingham, Ala. and took over its latest emergency parenthood. This time the crippled, homeless and dead-residents of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and South Carolina*-were victims of a series of mighty whirling winds that rose out of the West and struck 362 lifeless. Houses and shanties of 8,500 persons were plucked bursting into the air or smashed to kindling. It was estimated that some 3,000 people had been injured in the deadly scattered blasts which began devastating Dixie...
Promptly though unofficially. Great Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain ("Key Man in the MacDonald Cabinet") keynoted in a speech to his Birmingham constituents...
...Birmingham, Ala., Epheus and Mary Thomas named their daughter Laxative. Other names given to Negro children, as revealed by 'the Bureau of Vital Statistics: Rosy & Posy (twins), Arcola, Miserable, Roach, Zenobia, Poindexter, Diplomj, Nebuchadnezzar, Mumps, Cleopatra, Love Lycurgus, Measles, Cleop, Island, Moraphine, Shylock, Phemia Initia, Shinola, Truthie, Listerine, Providentia, Etoy, Zeller, Delphine-Richlene, Arcadia, Zebedee, Charity, Orestee-Lennion, Ishman-Julius, Friendly James, Pearlean, Amorous, Dimples, Violin, Mystic Kate, Ivory White, Ivory Shivers...
...kept firmly screwed in his face all through his long and distinguished parliamentary career. It was exactly such a tariff program, right down to the 10% basic rate, that he fought for until stricken with paralysis in his jist year. In tribute to "Old Joe," as his Birmingham constituents fondly called him, all Conservative members of the House rose from their seats when his boy Neville finished speaking. They faced the distinguished visitors' gallery, where sat a little old U. S.-born lady now known as Mrs. William Hartley Carnegie. She is "Old Joe's" widow, Neville Chamber lain...
TIME publishes the report of a Birmingham-Southern professor, which places Memphis at the head of the list of U. S. cities for greatest number of murders per 100,000 population...