Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have given assent to a bill for confirmation of the agreement reached between my ministers and the Governments of the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland [the Irish boundary settlement, TIME, Dec. 14, 21]. It is my heartfelt prayer that this measure may advance co-operation and strengthen good will in Ireland...
...three teams. In Oregon a stage line uses a snow motor in its two daily round trips over the Mackenzie Pass between Eugene and Bend. Orders are already in hand from Canada, Norway, Sweden, Alaska. The Hudson Bay Co. has ordered a supply to maintain communications with its most northern fur-trading stations. The Royal Northwest Mounted Police have also gone into the market for snow motors, and may cease to be horsemen and become chauffeurs, to the deep regret of cinema people. A number of prominent motor makers have also been interested in the proposition from the angle...
...Yucatan Peninsula to scientific research is due largely to the work carried on by the American chewing gum industry and the United Fruit Company. In the interior the "Chicle Development Company has established several camps and trails which will be used by the Mason-Spinden Expedition. In Northern Honduras where Dr. Spinden hopes to continue his researches of recent years, the United Fruit Company has offered invaluable assistance in the cooperation of its personnel and the use of its planation clearings
...motive power behind all these rumors was a document signed at London (TIME, Dec. 14) by the representatives of Great Britain, Ulster and the Irish Free State. It provides that the boundary between northern and southern Ireland shall remain as at present, and that Britain shall relinquish all claims upon the Free State for payment of Ireland's part of the British War debt. The agreement had been ratified earlier in the week by the British House of Commons and the Ulster Chamber. It awaited only the ratification of the Dáil before becoming operative. Why then...
...member of the expedition to Indian Harbor last summer will introduce the speaker tonight. The Grenfell Club of the University is composed entirely of students who have served as "wops", as the college volunteers with the missions are termed. Several members of the club have worked in the northern settlements for two or three consecutive seasons...