Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buttresses above Lake Michigan, Clyde B. Aitchison, Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, last week opened hearings on this question. Before him came Fred W. Sargent, President of the Chicago and Northwestern, L. E. Wettling, Manager of the Statistical Bureau of the western railways, Charles Donnelly, President of the Northern Pacific, and many another. They came to present the railways' side of the case and were questioned by Mr. Aitchison, by shippers and others opposed to the rate increase. The argument of the railroad men was typified by a comparison made by Mr. Sargent...
...Louisville, northern capital of the territory which Fundamentalism holds in almost unbroken sway, the popular and prominent League of America met to elect officers. Tingling with devout recollection of his masterful sermon on the dance, they chose Dr. John Roach Straton,* Manhattan divine, to be Chairman of the Campaign Committee. For President, they chose William Jennings Bryan, Jr., Los Angeles attorney...
...Fundamentalist leadership which the late W. J. Bryan wore without rival, John Roach Straton, loud Manhattan pastor, has toured from pulpit to pulpit. The sermon which has packed churches miles from Broadway, reaches its climax in a rhapsodic disruption of the modern dance. The climax, as delivered in Louisville, northern capital of territory which Fundamentalism holds in almost unbroken sway, follows verbatim...
...stationed in China is author of a book The Principles of Strategy. So much admired was it by the Japanese, that they had it translated into their language and placed in the hands of every officer of their army. Lieutenant Colonels Hasabo, Chief of Staff of Japanese troops in Northern China, and Furujo, Commandant of Japanese troops at Tientsin recently presented Colonel Naylor with the Japanese translation of his work and a silver cigarette case...
...equations, the calculus of variations, physical applications of mathematical theory. A skilled inventor, he answered correspondence concerning the Mason hydrophone, by which United States and British warships detected submarines during the War. A good provider and thoughtful husband, he packed his wife and three children off to a cool northern camp when hot weather came, planning to join them when he might...