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Word: birmingham (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the parade last week went a southern bull whose only weapon is his bellow. He was Col. Louis Alexander May of Birmingham, great admirer of Gulf States Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bull from Birmingham | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...Colonel was born 68 years ago on his father's cotton plantation near Birmingham. He became a runner for a Birmingham bank, was soon made general bookkeeper. At the age of 27 he became president of American National Bank of Birmingham. Various mercantile and mining ventures have kept him busy, have given him, says he, millions of dollars, also have taken millions of dollars away. His great interest for many years has been to build a railroad from Muscle Shoals to Mobile Bay, running along the valley of the Warrior River, passing through lands rich in coal and iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bull from Birmingham | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...Birmingham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...Birmingham's Relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

YOUR COMMENTS JUDGE PAYNES TESTIMONY CONCERNING RED CROSS RELIEF . . . INFERS BIRMINGHAM HAS ASKED FOR NATIONAL RELIEF WHICH IS ERRONEOUS- STOP WHAT JUDGE PAYNE SAID WAS BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA IS ONLY RED CROSS CHAPTER DOING URBAN ORGANIZED CHARITY AND IS SUPPORTED BY COMMUNITY CHEST STOP IN FAIRNESS TO US PLEASE CORRECT YOUR ERROR IN ANY COMMENTS ON RED CROSS RELIEF YOUR NEXT ISSUE AS WE HAVE NOT ASKED FOR OUTSIDE HELP AND ARE FUNCTIONING SATISFACTORILY UNDER EXISTING CIRCUMSTANCES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 23, 1931 | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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