Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President came Howard Elliott, Chairman of the Board of the Northern Pacific R. R., Hale Holden, President, and Charles E. Perkins, General Manager, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. They discussed the proposed merger between the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern railroads, a question which the Interstate Commerce Commission will later decide...
Seven out of every ten stockholders in the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern railroads, through a committee, last week formally decided to lease their lines for 99 years to a new company, the Great Northern Pacific Railway Co. These paired roads operate from Chicago to Spokane, Portland and Seattle-territory also served by the competitive Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul...
...Tonio Kroeger" begins where "Buddenbrooks" ended. Again a boy in school, his first friendship and love, and then the author's actual experience, the passions and suffering of artistic life. It is not the romantic southern sky, the "Bellaza" that he cares for. He cannot suppress his northern inclinations, his preference for Denmark rather than Italy; and artist though he may be by profession, and may feel himself to be-his closest friend tells him that at the bottom of his heart he is not an artist-but a bourgeois gone astray. It is a hard judgement, but he accepts...
...soldiers, itinerant northern mercenaries, took from Senator Bingham $1,000 in cash and his $500 motion picture camera. He, often imperious and peremptory in the Senate, was considered lucky last week to get the private car in which he traveled shunted back to Peking, whence he had ventured out to view the battle area...
...Coliseum, ancient Chicago political bear-pit, was last week the scene of a Northern Baptist convention. Oldtime revival songs swelled 5,000 throats until the Rev. James Whitcomb* Brougher, presiding, cleared his throat and keynoted: ". . .Let us keep the spirit of unity...