Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sheriff's investigation revealed a medieval oligarchy in northern Arkansas. Two intermarrying, farm-owning clans on Dry and Cagin Creeks hold baronial sway over their hilly domain. With hickory whips and squirrel rifles they drive indigent, illiterate citizens to farm work at serf's wages. Claiming seigniorial "first right" to all women of the community, the clansmen had exerted their claim on the Ruminer girl, killed Franklin for defying them...
...more interest than his Cuban mission for low-duty sugar men, the committee found his statement of clients and fees. His income, he said was close to $150,000 per year, to which the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Co. contributed $25,000, the Burlington and Northern Pacific Railroads $20,000, the Baltimore & Ohio $10,000, United Fruit Co. $15,000 (to prevent a tariff on bananas), the Chesapeake & Ohio and Hocking Valley $12,000, the Cuban Embassy...
Earlier in the week President Chiang Kai-shek left Honan where he had been directing operations against the People's Army (northern rebels, supposedly under the direction of Generals Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Hsi-shan) for Nanking. Following the Soviet invasion of Manchuria came a second report: military leaders of all Chinese factions had ceased fighting, concluded a speedy truce to present a united front against the Russians...
Captain Donald B. MacMillan will give an illustrated lecture to members of the Harvard Union on Tuesday evening on the topic "Under the Northern Lights...
...line that Mr. James wants to build runs parallel to the coast, about 175 miles inland, from Klamath Falls, Ore., to Paxton, Calif. Only one through route, the Southern Pacific, exists between the Pacific Northwest and San Francisco. The James extension would join the Great Northern and the Western Pacific into a second, and in some ways much superior, through route. Said Mr. James last week to Commissioner Mahaffie and the 200 witnesses and participants in the case: "I saw in the transportation and industrial situation in central and northern California an opportunity to carry on a constructive work which...