Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...granted to 50,000 woolen mill operatives in New England were followed by advances of 12½% to some 25,000 cotton mill workers. These advances marked the first action by the cotton manufacturing interests to meet the higher wage levels set by the woolen mills throughout all the northern textile centers. When the general advance in wages in New England is completed it will affect about 250,000 workers...
...Mayfield's chances are these: Five Republicans and 27 Democrats that he will sit in the Senate; 47 Republicans, 15 Democrats, and Senator Shipstead (Farmer-Labor) that he will not. Senator Mayfield was "elected by the Ku Klux Klan"-which is enough to put most Republicans and the Northern Democrats against him. In addition, he is accused of various corrupt practices. It is expected that he will be allowed to take his seat in the Senate and that then an investigation will be ordered. Already the cry is going up: "A Mayfield for a Newberry...
Finally, the Latin type of governmental Christianity can never suit the northern code of honor. He points to Christ as one who never spoke to the hearts of men en masse, but rather to the inner spirit of each individual. "He banished political methods from His teaching." This individualistic, Protestant type of Christianity, with its adaptability to a modern, scientific and industrial age, is decidedly not a spent force. "This, we may venture to predict, is the Christianity of the future, as it was the first Christianity," declares the Dean, at the end of his very outspoken essay...
...endeavoring to preserve peace, although the press and the propagandists of many past cras have blazoned for war on what then seemed to them the best of grounds. "Fifty-four forty or fight" thrilled thousands in the forties, but the fact remains that for seventy-five years our northern boundary has run along parallel forty nine to the entire satisfaction and to the lasting honor of both Great Britain and the United States...
...wife. Queen Amantere, who occupied an unusual position and received burial with the honors of a king. After her two more queens were buried with the honors of a king, but in the poorly-built later pyramids. Altogether, from the time of Ergemenes until the end of the Northern Cemetery, about five hundred and seventy-five years, there were thirty kings and five queens buried in the official royal cemetery of the kings. This fact proves clearly that there was no long line of queens ruling over Ethiopia; but it also proves that five queens occupied a position of unusual...