Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. General Albert Taylor Goodwyn, 88, onetime (1928-29) Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans, husband of U. S. President John Tyler's granddaughter Priscilla Cooper Tyler, grandnephew of William Wyatt Bibb, first Governor of Alabama; in Birmingham...
...Swiss headwaiter in a Birmingham hotel. He shared a first prize in the Calcutta Sweeps ($500,000) with one of the customers, who was found in a hospital where he had been taken after an automobile accident...
...Chicago is an excrescence of the Middle Ages which can exist only in the world's most Tory-ridden country. He who would destroy all that Chicago stands for would uproot the African jungles and plant a dirty Birmingham or Bradford in its place. Let us leave Chicago alone as something which we thought died out in the old days, and be surprised at its coming alive again...
Neville Chamberlain, No. 2 son by No. 2 wife, was sent by Old Joe to Rugby and to Mason College, Birmingham, then packed off to sweat and supervise an estate in the Bahamas...
...when the stock was $25, ended in 1923 when it was $104. At that time he said the stock should go to $400. Although at last week's prices Gulf was selling at double its 1931 low, speculators apparently did not share the enthusiasm of the bullish colonel from Birmingham. On the day that it became known he had started another campaign Gulf dropped $22 a share...