Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...industrial Revolution inspired cordwaining Chamberlains to leave London and leather, start making screws in Birmingham in the Midlands, which was for them like having taken a Covered Wagon in dangerous search of Opportunity. In 1854, at the age of 18, the present Prime Minister's father Joseph Chamberlain moved from London to Birmingham to represent the family's new business interests there and before he was half through his bold career he had made Birmingham what civic experts now recognize as "the first great municipality with an integrated and fully modern government...
...Austen Chamberlain, as he then was, received from King George V a much rarer honor than elevation to the peerage, knighthood in the Order of the Garter, and in British circles this week Mr. Neville Chamberlain was slated to receive equal honors at the hands of King George VI. Birmingham University was at once presented last week with a $50.000 scholarship fund, donated by Midland Publisher Sir Charles Hyde "to commemorate the services for peace of the Prime Minister...
Chamberlain & Hitler- In 1923 supposedly humdrum Mr. Neville Chamberlain, longtime political leader of Birmingham, won the startled gratitude of his municipality by making his first airplane flight over the Birmingham Fair as a means of advertising...
...High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division. He has been chairman of the Committee on Law Revision and has been the author of numerous articles on current English law. The English peer was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and holds honorary LL.D.'s from the Universities of Birmingham and London...
Born. To Mrs. Stephen Lloyd, daughter of England's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain; a daughter, the Prime Minister's second grandchild (Mrs. Lloyd has a 2-year-old son); in Birmingham, England...