Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Prime Minister's house hold "revealed" to the United Press that when Neville Chamberlain is tuckered out after a hard day at the office, he relaxes by crooning Negro spirituals in a Birmingham baritone...
...steel industry, with its 410 steel mills centred around Pittsburgh, Chicago and Birmingham so vast that the four largest can produce more steel than all Germany. The automobile industry which in a year produces 2,500,000 motor cars and could produce about 6,000,000, which directly or indirectly employs 6,380,000 workmen, which in a year uses 176,000 tons of iron, 329,900 tons of rubber; 63,000,000 square feet of plate glass; 21,156,000 feet of leather upholstery; 191,700 tons of lead; 12,600,000 pounds of nickel; 619,434 bales...
...Birmingham coal dealer, Artist Brockhurst was born in 1890. At twelve he entered the Birmingham School of Art, was soon hailed as "a young Botticelli," won prize after prize there and at the Royal Academy Schools in London. A smooth success from his first one-man show in 1915, Limner Brockhurst charges up to ?2,000 for a full-length portrait, limits his commissions to ?20,000 a year. His person is as meticulous as his painting. He has a horror of Bohemianism, would rather stain his Bond Street suits with paint than cover them up with a smock...
March 18. At a meeting in Birmingham, England, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said: "Is this the last attack upon a small state, or is it . . . a step in the direction of an attempt to dominate the world by force? . . . No greater mistake could be made than to suppose that . . . this nation has so lost its fibre that it will not take part to the utmost of its power resisting such a challenge...
This was too much for young, hardworking Conservative Ronald Cartland, member for King's Norton, part of Mr. Chamberlain's native Birmingham, who has defended the Prime Minister in many a speech. "Profoundly disturbed," he did what no young M. P. is supposed to do: criticized his Party's leader on the floor. Blurting out with evident sincerity but without much coherence against Mr. Chamberlain's "jeering pettifogging party speeches," he said all year he had had to dispel to his constituents the "absurd impression" that the Prime Minister had dictatorial ambitions, would find it more...