Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion I have seen a military officer, in full uniform and commission, a second lieutenant, beaten in the same fashion but without music and formality in the main corridor of the infantry gate of the great historic barracks of army headquarters of Aleppo', Northern Syria, by the direct order and in the personal presence of the Brigadier General, Ahmed Shevkey Pasha...
Breathless, popeyed, footsore runners from the Northern Front brought Emperor Haile Selassie news that 4,700 Italians have been killed by Ethiopians in savage skirmishes bordering the area nominally conquered by Il Duce's forces. Runners from the Southern Front told of the capture from Italians of 1,000 precious rifles and 20 priceless machine guns, of Italian tanks stranded and abandoned, Italian native troops mutinying...
...exceedingly fleet "strategic retreat" last week, Ethiopian forces under redoubtable Kassa Sebat executed the "maneuver of luring" Italian General Ruggiero Santini into ordering a whole Army corps to separate from the main Italian advance on the Northern Front and chase Ethiopians headlong, risky in Ethiopia's wilds...
...installed Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. No less monumental was the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, to which Mr. Rockefeller was the largest contributor (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932 et seq.). That this survey, which found great need of interdenominational cooperation in foreign missions, was received "unenthusiastically" by the Northern Baptist Convention, its onetime President Charles Oscar Johnson was quick to recall last week in St. Louis. Added he: "If Mr. Rockefeller can get along without us, we'll do our best to get along without...
John D. Rockefeller Sr. set his son an example by giving Northern and Southern Baptist causes between $20,000,000 and $30,000,000 during his active life. His giving spread over a wider front, the younger Rockefeller confers with his advisers over each benefaction, which may be one in which he has a special interest, or one put before him by friends, or one which competes for his attention on its own. To his church John D. Jr. has been no less generous than his father. A list of Rockefeller donations compiled confidentially for its clients a few years...