Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Into Birmingham's Jefferson County jail last week walked an agitated family. One member of it was Nell Williams, daughter of a prominent lawyer. Last summer, she was riding with her sister Augusta and another girl near Birmingham when a Negro jumped on their car's running board, made them drive into the woods, threatened to "get even for what your race has done to mine." He then shot and killed Miss Williams' sister and the other girl (TIME...
...searched Dent Williams for weapons and was not surprised to find a revolver. The family was then led into a room where a Negro named Willie Peterson, suspected of the crime, was to be re-identified by Miss Williams. Willie Peterson had been arrested fortnight before when, walking in Birmingham with her brother Dent, Nell Williams had suddenly pointed and screamed, "That's him! That's him!" Brother Dent had covered the Negro with a gun until police came...
...average weighted to take into account all major items of expenditure in their proportionate amount. For the past year alone food was off 20%, household furnishings 9.6%, clothing 8.1%, rent 5.1%, fuel 4.3%. Detroit showed a 12.7% drop, Kansas City 5.6%, New York 8.5%, Atlanta 8.9%, Birmingham 12.8%, Philadelphia 8.1%, St. Louis 10.2%, Boston 9.8%, Chicago 10.2%, Cleveland 10.9%, San Francisco...
...Mamaux of Newark, famed pitcher for Brooklyn in 1923, pitched both games, allowed two hits in the first, five in the second, won them both in 2 hr. 20 min., 2 to 1 & 6 to 0. Five days later Rochester won the pennant. Other minor league pennant winners: the Birmingham Barons (Southern Association); the Houston Buffs (Texas League); the St. Paul Saints (American Association...
...chain, with hotels in Manhattan, Los Angeles, Providence, Atlanta and Havana, which showed a $121,000 loss for the six months ended June 30 against a $492,000 profit before Federal taxes in the corresponding 1930 period. Dinkier Hotels Co., operating in the South (Hotel Ansley, Atlanta; the Tutwiler, Birmingham; the Andrew Jackson, Nashville) last year earned $62,000 against $251,000 in 1929. A drop to $84,000 from $120,000 was shown last year by big United Hotels Co. of America which operates 20 hotels (the Clifton and the Niagara. Niagara Falls; the King Edward, Toronto; the Durant...