Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the Civil War fading into legend, the ordinary northern U. S. citizen takes a sentimental attitude toward the South. It is the land of sleepy, gentle plantations. There Cotton is King; white men are colonels; lazy colored men lie on their backs and croon "Massa's in de col', col' groun'" up at a beautiful orange moon; and colored mammies are kissing babies & making pancakes. That conception received last week a rude jolt from Dr. Julius Klein, able chief of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. At Memphis, Mr. Klein delivered...
...escaped such untoward events; but he may yet pass his responsions and live to find out that he is a person of no importance with the university town of Oxford, except, perhaps, to the tradesman and a few fawners, despite his magnificent titles and his 49,900 acres of land...
...nation will hope that Ruth Elder and other girls will stay on the ground hereafter, or do their flying over land and let men like Lindbergh, if there are any like him, do the ocean flying."?Arthur Brisbane...
After five hours of scouring the sea for help, they sighted the Dutch tanker, S. S. Barendrecht, bound from the Azores to Rotterdam. Circling low they dropped a message on the ship's deck. "How FAR ARE WE FROM LAND AND WHICH WAY?"?Ruth Elder...
Still other negotiations under way: $10,000,000 loan to the city of Bucharest; $8,000,000 Hungarian Mortgage Land Bank loan; 86,000,000 Silesian Landschraft Bank loan; $5,000,000 Deutsche Bank and Boden Bank loan...