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Foreign Scandal. Within the past year came the recession and layoffs. As the last hired, Negroes were the first fired. In Nottingham, a textile city of 312,000, where Negroes constitute less than 1% of the population, they make up 20% of the unemployed. Fist fights between whites and Negroes have become a common Saturday night feature in Nottingham's slum district around St. Ann's Well Road, an area noted for petty crime, poverty and prostitution. Last month a gang of white Teddy boys jumped a West Indian laborer and beat him with fists and clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Cry in the Streets | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...other kin deeply anti-Puritan. Gage himself, while avoiding prosecution as a priest, got help, refuge and money from his family and Catholic sympathizers. At length he preached a sermon of recantation in St. Paul's just six days after King Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham and began war against his Puritan Parliament. Thereafter, Gage sent to torture and the scaffold an old schoolmate from St. Omer's, a Jesuit priest. There is also some evidence that he actually informed on one of his own brothers, a priest who was executed. Another brother, a colonel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Long Mile | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

Time Exposure. In Nottingham, England, Mrs. Edna May Bracewell won a divorce after testifying that in 13 years of marriage the only present her husband ever gave her was a watch, and that he took it back before she left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 23, 1957 | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...First? In Nottingham. England, Prison Commissioner Duncan Fairn complained that girls who wait outside infamous Dartmoor Prison to see prisoners are giving the place a bad name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 1, 1957 | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...Christian people, stop the war," proclaimed a banner at a Free Church Federal Council protest rally in Nottingham. A delegation of British church leaders called at 10 Downing Street, voiced the "deep concern of Christian opinion," and urged a cease-fire (Anthony Eden was too busy to see them). Dr. Donald Soper, fire-eating British Methodist leader who urged refusal to fight, led a protest march through London's West End. Anglican Father Trevor Huddleston, famed for his fight against apartheid in South Africa, called for even stronger condemnation by the churches: "Unless this is done, once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Churches & Egypt | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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