Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...away but still perceptible as far south as Washington and as far west as Chicago, and also in Canada. The quivers lasted for about four minutes. A fault or crack in the rock strata, either the Logan's Fault coming down from Canada, via Lake Champlain and the northern Hudson Valley, or the Fundian Fault which runs southwest off the Maine coast, from the Bay of Fundy, is believed to have been responsible. The records on seismographs seem not to have been very clear and the exact point of the disturbance was not easily determined. No damage directly traceable...
...item in the Home Secretary's estimates moved ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden to intense indignation. The item was a matter of about $5,500,000 for a special grant to the Government of Northern Ireland to help defray the expenses of the special constabulary. Mr. Snowden declared that there is, counting police and specials, a bobby for every six families in Ulster. He further declared that the money was being used for the "support of Orange ascendancy," and said that, if parliamentary etiquette permitted it, he would, "characterize with an ugly word" the methods...
...about a dozen years that action was taken. Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House. He gave the word to Attorney General Knox. First there were investigations and publicity, then prosecutions. One after another, trusts were knocked on the head and compelled to disintegrate. In 1904 and 1905, the Northern Securities, the Beef Trust, the Addyston Pipe Co. were dispatched. Later came the Standard Oil case (which lasted for five years before the company lost and was dissolved) and the American Tobacco Co. case...
Invitations to President Coolidge's inauguration were sent to the Governors of all the states. The first "regret" to be received was from Governor Elaine of Wisconsin, the only Northern state which did not give its electoral vote to Mr. Coolidge...
...Professor Bailey visited South Africa and carried on astronomical observations on an elevated plateau in the northern and more remote section of Cape Colony, and conducted careful investigations during the next year in regard to the desirability of establishing a station in that region...