Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Northern Chinese Army, broke through the barrier in search of loot. Two British armored cars sped to the attack, three Britishers were wounded in the exchange. In another part of the International .Settlement, two British Punjabi soldiers were killed, ten wounded, in a short clash. In Moscow as news came that Shanghai, "stronghold of imperialism" had fallen, thousands of jubilant workers tramped the streets waving red flags and singing the "Internationale...
...since 1925, to President John Stewart Bryan of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and his predecessor in that office, S. Emory Thomason. Old friends, the new partners paid a booming price for their property-$900,000-and assumed all liabilities. They said they believed in Tampa, believed northern capital was by no means through flowing south. Publisher Bryan did not announce that he would leave his Richmond (Va.) News-Leader and devote his whole time to the Tampa Tribune. Evidently he is going to leave most of the active management to Publisher Thomason, who last week resigned as general...
...idea, will go on to Pekin or not, I am not prepared to say. With the advance on Shanghai they have gained control of about one half the country. Much severer fighting awaits them, however, if they begin to advance north of the Yangtse River into the Northern home territory. As for the present movement making China into a formidable world power, I do not believe that China will become imperialistic, certainly not in the near future...
...Herald gave its encouragement to the early iron-and-steelmongers who tried and failed, and tried again and again to make good metal from the sulphurous mountain ore and sell it profitably. It helped educate Birmingham out of its suicidal policy of selling cheap pig iron to northern manufacturers. The U. S. Steel Corp. put George Gordon Crawford in as 38-year-old president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. with the cheery news that he was like "a man who, having a millstone hung about his neck, has been thrown into a rushing current and told...
Coach Kershaw, whose appointment to succeed Coach White of the 1926 team was announced last night, was born in Lancashire, England, and has played soccer abroad and in this country for fifteen years. After playing on an English professional team of the Northern Third Divisional league, he came to the United States and played on some of the best teams in the country, being a member of Fore River team of Quincy in the National Championships of 1920. For the past six years he has been manager and coach of the Abbot Worsted team in Forge Village, Westford, and succeeded...