Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These two selections are not insignificant. Coming from opposite parties, they show a tendency in Northern political machines to nominate Negroes to take advantage of the increasing Negro vote in the North. It happens that the 21st District of New York is in a section of Manhattan, Harlem, which has a large Negro population. The same is true of the First District of Illinois...
...this policy on the part of political bosses proves fruitful, there may soon be a number of Negroes in Congress from Northern municipalities. The last Negro Congressman was George H. White, of North Carolina, whose term expired in 1901. It is noteworthy that of the 21 colored Representatives and two Senators who have served in Congress every one, without exception, came from the South. To be sure, most of them served during the Reconstruction days...
...Russo-Japanese parley, was again resumed at Peking, capital of China, between L. M. Karakhan Soviet Ambassador to China, and Kenkichi Yoshizawa, Japanese Minister to China. The Japanese evacuation of the northern part of the island of Sakhalin (TIME, July 7), was hitherto the stumbling-block in the negotiations. An early agreement, resulting in the recognition of Russian by Japan, was forecast by political observers...
...policy of repressing every liberty pursued by the present Government." While rain and hailstones swept over Milan, Piacenza, Mantua, Novara and Brescia - Bergamo and Verona experienced, for the first time in memory, a Summer snowstorm. The Italian Tyrol was so cold that people were forced to wear furs. Throughout northern Italy the rivers and lakes overflowed, causing much damage to crops. The Italian ex-Servicemen's Association ended its annual Congress by promising support to Benito on condition that he fulfill his promise to pacify the country and reform the illegalities practiced by the Fascist extremists...
...also the Russian aim to prevent American capital from building a railroad across Northern Persia. England, too, is fighting the Americans in this, and the British Government is using the loan made to Persia in wartime as a very effective weapon...