Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bishop courted his traveling secretary, Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum, whom he married (his second wife) in London last July and took to Brazil for a honeymoon. The Ministers demanded the Church equivalent of a grand jury investigation of Bishop Cannon. Perforce Bishop William Neuman Ainsworth of Birmingham, Ala., ruling Bishop of the Church, was obliged to hold a hearing. Bishop Cannon delayed action from September when the charges were filed, until last week because his arthritis became worse and worse. He has spent most of the past three months in hospitals. Last week, when the hearing finally occurred...
...Birmingham, England, a retired manufacturer made his will, had a talking picture made of himself reading it, selected the friends & relations who will be invited to witness it after his death. Seating arrangements are planned so that his image on the screen will speak to each individually as if in real life. His speech will begin: "Now that I am dead, I claim the right to speak to you impartially. ..." He will point out faults and virtues of one & all, concluding: "And now, my dear nieces, nephews and friends, I will bore you no longer. ... To save unpleasant lawsuits...
...great patron like Delaware's Pierre Samuel du Pont or New England's Edward Stephen Harkness. Last week, however, it was revealed that Alabama would get some $7,500,000 worth of brand new boys' schools, bequest of the late Harvey G. Woodward, Birmingham real estate and iron man who died last November...
Harvey G. Woodward made a fortune in Birmingham and Manhattan real estate and in his family's Woodward Iron Co. Bluff, hearty, he scorned any show of wealth, frequently wore khaki trousers, woolen shirts. In life he made known his views on education and religion to only a few intimates. Born of an Episcopal family, of British ancestry, he was never a church member, never a Ku Kluxer. He believed that religion is a personal matter, that church dogma should not be taught as fact. His reason for placing his chain-schools in the country, for restricting enrolment...
...January 11, 1930, the Ensley Bank of Birmingham, Ala., failed. Since then the wave of banking suspension has increased. Last week the Federal Reserve reported that for the first eleven months 981 banks with deposits of $515,486,000 were suspended, which compares to 372 banks with deposits of $129,000,000 in the relatively quiet year of 1928, 132 banks with deposits of $233,000,000 in the panic year of 1907. Preliminary estimates place the 1930 total at 1,121 banks with $700,000,000 in deposits. Of these failures, the greatest part has occurred in recent months...