Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When China first split into several "Governments," the Hai Chi and Hai Shen picked the Canton Government of Sun Yat-sen in the south. Later they sold out to the great northern war lord, Wu Pei-fu, next to Chang Hsueh-liang, the son of Wu's archenemy; still later to Nanking Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Two years ago they blandly deserted once more to their old friends, the Cantonese navy. Last fortnight, completely unable to decide whom to desert to, they steamed out of Canton past the fire of the Cantonese land forts into the neutral British harbor...
Gardner Cowles was then 42, with six children and not much money. A small-town banker in Algona, in northern Iowa, he had taught school there, married one of the teachers, made a little money as a contractor in rural mail routes. For a while he edited a local weekly called the Advance. His great & good friend was the rival paper's editor. Harvey Ingham. In 1902 Editor Ingham went to Des Moines to edit the down-at-heel Register & Leader, persuaded his friend Cowles to buy the paper. Price: $300,000. What Mr. Cowles thought he was buying...
...year-old Pantograph, and running it well enough to make it top-flight among small-town papers. For their first step, Messrs. Cowles & Merwin sought a community with a high rating of literacy and education, a high percentage of native-born U. S. citizens, preferably of northern European stock, an even distribution of purchasing power with few rich, few poor. The paper they wanted was to be an evening sheet with strong reader loyalty and strong emphasis on home circulation. The specifications led them to Minneapolis and the Star...
Paper is a hot subject in the South, partly because of the conviction that Northern newsprint "interests" are blocking the flow of capital to their unborn industry, partly because Southern pines- slash, loblolly, longleaf, old field and Virginia-sprout like weeds. Slash pine grows as much as 6 ft. in a single year. And ardent Southern piners like Chemist Herty claim that if cultivated like field crops, slash pine could be harvested five years from the planting of seedlings. Ordinarily slash pine can be cut for pulp at an age of ten to 15 years, as against...
...Civil War that began in Kansas in 1854, did not end until after the Hamburg, S. C. riots during the Presidential campaign of 1876. Least persuasive portion of his history is his account of the general strike of the slaves during the war years, when large numbers followed the Northern troops despite the efforts of officers to discourage them, were used at first as laborers, were eventually trained and employed as troops. Southerners, if they penetrate so deeply into Du Bois's history, may quarrel with his account of the success of the former slaves in battle, as well...