Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grateful as I am," said the whispery voice, "to the people of North Carolina, for the honors that they have conferred upon me, for the past 40 years. . . . I would rather be stripped of them all, stripped of all my earthly possessions, if they will just leave me in the home in which I was born and which has been the home of my ancestors since the Revolutionary War, than to see this man [Smith] nominated...
Senator Simmons would not accuse the Raleigh witnesses of lying. He did not grow noisy about it like Senator Heflin. But he was convinced that North Carolina was convinced that the Brown Derby was corruptive. Moreover, he said, Smith would be defeated in North Carolina "four or five to one." He paused for breath and then reiterated, that Candidate Smith's "derelictions" would be exposed, by the Republicans...
...days later, delegates to North Carolina's state convention were elected in North Carolina's 100 counties. Returns were confused but the Brown Derby was clearly defeated. Senator Simmons was content. He still commanded his state. "They considered me the leader in the South against Smith's candidacy," he said...
...cooperate with the experts in destroying or neutralizing every atom of phosgene which he possessed by any means which they would agree to suggest. His loss, he said, would be about $25,000. The experts then began a learned squabble, some advising that the phosgene be dumped into the North Sea, others declaring that such a procedure would poison untold millions of fish, and still others recommending that the safest thing to do would be decant the gas into new, strong tanks and sell it as quickly as possible to widely spread consumers. Eventually the consensus of opinion was that...
South Chinese soldiers of the Nanking Nationalist Government battled valorously last week, in an effort to capture Peking from the North Chinese Dictator Chang...