Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past six years the farmers of northern Indiana have met to display the democratic vegetables that grow so lushly on their rich and mucky fields. Last week more than 8,000 people crowded into North Judson, Ind. (pop. 1,348), some to look at the best small crops raised in their 17 neighboring counties, others to watch a willowy high school graduate, dark Evelyn Edwards, 17, modestly mount a throne on spinach, onions, celery, lettuce, cauliflower, carrots, cabbage, peas & beets to be proclaimed the first "Queen of the Muck Crop* Show...
Notice to Mutineers. Marshal Badoglio was sent to Africa last month by the Dictator to inspect particularly the Northern Front under Old de Bono's command (TIME, Oct. 28). He also visited the Southern Front on which General Graziani has been forging up toward Harar and Ethiopia's only railway, returned to Rome fortnight ago. Gossip has had General Graziani vexed by Old de Bono's reluctance to send him as many troops as he has asked for. What the dashing General in the South might not listen to from the Qtiadrnmvir, he will presumably...
...Northern Baptist Convention...
...Some months ago I sent you my contribution for the current fiscal year, and in doing so stated that it would be my final annual gift to the unified budget of the Northern Baptist Convention. Hereafter, such sums as I may donate to general religious work, it is my present thought to contribute to specific projects, chiefly interdenominational or nondenominational in character, which interpret the Christian task in the light of present day needs and which are based not so much on denominational affiliation as on broad, forward-looking principles of cooperation...
Dessye, Ethiopia's main headquarters for its northern defense forces, is 150 miles from Makale and half way to Addis Ababa. There until last week stayed thin-faced big-eyed Crown Prince Asfa Wassan at the head of 10,000 well equipped warriors. Suddenly he stepped from an airplane at Addis Ababa, to be warmly greeted by his father the Emperor and hustled off to the palace. There he would rule, courtiers said, on behalf of Haile Selassie when and if the Emperor goes to the front...