Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned to Nanking from a haggling expedition in North China. Hopping by airplane from general to general Dr. Kung had apparently cut a swath of bribery broader and more sweeping than any in recent Chinese annals. "I have had unqualified success," he beamed, "in cementing the political bonds of Northern leaders with Nanking...
...jest wanta say a word to thank that there northern feller Carmer for the fine book he has wrote about us pore ignorant people down here in Alabama [TIME, July 2]. They shore do discover things about us and we do like for the rest of the world to know how we live down here...
...learned from it to do their own tribal dances? But hard-headed Saskatchewanians knew better. Up for re-election last month was Saskatchewan's Premier James Thomas Milton Anderson. Few days before election he returned to Regina, the capital, from a campaign swing through the sparsely settled northern districts of his province. Then he told his story. Motoring one day through a lonely stretch of prairie, he had stopped by the roadside, seen with his own eyes the tribal dance performed by 20 prairie chickens. He had his chauffeur and a man named Fairley for witnesses. Saskatchewanians listened respectfully...
...Barbary Coast ever were. Because Chinese pirates often disguise themselves as passengers, ships plying in those dangerous waters are fitted with "anti-piracy grilles" that screen off the deck-passengers from the rest of the vessel, prevent surprise attacks. Until last year, piracy was unknown along China's northern coast. Then one March morning pirate junks attacked the British-owned coasting steamer Nanchang, waiting for a pilot off the mouth of the Liao River. Contrary to all rules, four British officers were captured, three of them held for ransom for five and a half dreary months. To while away...
Engaged. Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, third son of John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Mary French, granddaughter of the late Frederick Billings, co-founder and onetime president of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A graduate of Princeton where he received-third place in a poll as the "most pious" student, Laurance Rockefeller completed his first year at Harvard Law School last month...