Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent trip into the northern portion of Baja California our little 1927 Model A Ford scraped crankcase and differential many a time as we chugged along at the good rate of 10-15 miles per hour, What good would the 90-mile-per-hour potentialities of the new, low streamliners have done us here? In this long stretch of uninhabited desert with no water, gas or oil for 135 miles, how much of a handicap would have been ours in one of the 1935 model automobiles, whose low-slung bodies, according to one advertisement, "make entrance and exit very easy...
Best-hated prisoner at Fort Jefferson among the Northern officers in command was Dr. Mudd. Made a hospital orderly, he endured for a few weeks the knowledge of his innocence, of his family's ruin and disgrace, the contempt of his Negro guards. Then he tried to escape. After that he put in twelve hours per day at hard labor under a broiling sun, his legs weighted with heavy irons. The other twelve hours he spent chained hand & foot in a small, solitary dungeon, wet, hot, swarming with mosquitoes and vermin. His legs and arms swelled...
...Over northern California spread a general alarm. Highways were blocked, drawbridges raised, a swarm of officers and two U. S. Army pursuit planes put on the trail. After a few miles the convicts tossed out Secretary Noon to warn pursuing police that the boardmen were still in their automobile. Finding a raised drawbridge in their path, they doubled back, sped unharmed through the helpless posse. The police caught up again, burst their quarry's rear tires with a blast of bullets. A slug plowed through Boardman Sykes' thigh, pinked Boardman Stephens...
...Bedford County citizens; but was the result of a communistic spirit that has been cropping out in this section; but supposed to be by men coming in here to obtain work in the various mills and factories from the hot beds of communism, now existing in some of the Northern States, namely, New York City and Chicago. These Northern cities, where exists hot beds of Communists, Bolshevists, rackateers and gangsters, and in poor grace, to be so unfair as to make such charges as appears in this article referred to-about the little episode in Shelbyville-making a mountain...
...Armenian villages were uprooted and the people pushed on a horror-filled march which led only to starvation, rape, murder and eventual death for all. Village by village the Armenians were driven into nothingness until the Ittihad pointed at the villages about the mountain of Musa Dagh on the northern Syrian coast. Here under the leadership of Gabriel Bagradian, a wealthy Armenian who was caught in the maelstrom when he returned to his birthplace after years in Paris, the Armenians resisted deportation and withdrew to the rocky fastness of a plain high upon the ancient mount. For forty days...