Word: sunman
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Able Baltimore Sunman* Frank R. Kent recently toured, then exposed, censured, praised the South. Blushingly he conceded that "all this sounds like the dull booming of a local Chamber of Commerce." Then, full-throated, he said, "The astounding thing is that the figures of the Birmingham growth and development, of Atlanta's march ahead, of the strides in the Winston-Salem and Durham districts, check up. The claims made cannot be discounted nor the statements of the extraordinary expansion refuted. The rise in Birmingham's population from 35,000 in 1900 to 250,000 in 1926 tells...