Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North Carolina's Simmons remained hostile. Virginia's peppery little Glass arrived, was given a hotel room without a bath, lost his famed temper (TIME, May 28), vowed he never would vote for Smith. Missouri's Reed, after seeming to have quieted down, snapped "I am tired of this rot," and issued a statement which was a transparent attempt to rally the dwindling dry bloc. But it seemed that nothing upsetting would really happen-unless there came a fight over the party's platform...
...Solid South-States which never have gone Republican-would stand by Smith, he would have 114 votes (Alabama, 12; Arkansas, 9; Florida, 6; Georgia, 14; Louisiana, 10; Mississippi, 10; North Carolina, 12; South Carolina, 9; Texas, 20; Virginia...
Soon the new Ruler of an area larger than France and Italy together and lying just north of China proper, voiced a program for the future with virile firmness: "I want our people to concentrate on the development of Manchuria and look to ourselves, not outward, for development. There is no need of our seeking to expand now or encroach on other parts of China...
...Civil War continued War Lord Feng was driven from Peking and retired to his present famed war base at Kalgan, an impregnable stronghold 100 miles north of Peking. There Mr. and Mrs. Feng (she a onetime Y. W. C. A. worker), their several scampering children and a Swiss governess were "at home," until the restive Christian War Lord moved down into central China for the campaign now victoriously completed...
Mercedes Gleitz, London stenographer who said she swam the Strait of Gibraltar and the English Channel, tried to swim from Ireland to Scotland, 21%½ miles across the North Channel from Donaghadee to Port Patrick, but couldn't make...