Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Northern readers of a new publication, Forward Atlanta, were shocked to read the following business item...
Baptists. Strictly interpreted, the statement of the "officially appointed agencies on temperance and law enforcement of the Northern Baptist Convention" was routine, coming from temperance and enforcement workers of the church. It asked all good Baptists to vote against Smith, for Hoover (TIME, Sept. 24). But no such statement has routine effect in a presidential campaign; such statements are read with avidity, especially by the 1,250,000 persons who are represented in the convention...
...days after the Ohio Methodists were Willebrandtized. the Northern Baptist Convention (representing about 1,250,000 souls) was told by its officials that all good Baptists are expected to vote against Smith, for Hoover...
...convivial Merchant Tailors, banqueting in London last week, it seemed that the above words were actually uttered by Guest-of-Honor Sir Nicholas Gratten-Doyle, M. P., and Director of Northern Newspapers Co., Ltd. But friends of Sir William doubted. They knew that he knows his Bible. Therefore it seemed impossible that he could have so thoroughly scrambled the Genesis story of the fig leaves and the suits of skins...
Wheat. Renick William Dunlap, Acting Secretary of Agriculture, warned farmers not to sell their wheat crop too hastily. The northern hemisphere is raising 2,873,000 bushels of wheat this fall. This is a trifle more than last year. But the world's rye crop is 92,000,000 bushels less than last year; the potato crop will be less; Russia probably will have no wheat to export; people are demanding more wheat (as flour) than ever before...