Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank creditors. He approved the conduct of Mr. Fentress and his attorneys but denied them further fees, blazing: "As it was conducted in 1929 the investment trust was nothing but a glorified gambling institution. . . ." ¶ Samuel Insull Jr. and six other past or present directors of Northern Indiana Public Service Co. were indicted in Crown Point, Ind. for embezzlement, larceny and conspiracy to commit a felony. The indictments were not divulged, but it was understood that Insull Jr. and his associates were charged with looting Northern Indiana's treasury to shore up the crumbling walls of the Insull holding...
...hardly guess that there was such a thing as a "Negro problem." For her and her readers the Negro is the Southern plantation darky, whom Southerners always represent as being a lovable, child-like creature, living as a happy dependent on a sympathetic white master. Race-conscious Negroes and Northern negrophiles consider Authoress Peterkin's gently glowing picture partial, incomplete, but readers in general fall under the charm of her affectionate sympathy. Photographer Doris Ulmann's share in Roll, Jordan, Roll is 70 masterly photo graphs of Negro types, scenes. With these pictures as text, Authoress Peterkin...
...former. In the first place, it might interest you to know that in the Irish Free State 95% of the whiskey sold is of Irish Free State origin. The Scotch that is sold there is sold mainly on account of its being cheaper in price. So far as northern Ireland is concerned, the proportionate amount of Scotch consumed is admittedly greater than in southern Ireland, but since this is the smaller section of Ireland, and since even there the majority consume Irish whiskey, you will see that it is absolutely incorrect to claim that the discerning Irishman drinks Scotch...
...Mergers: Free Baptist-Northern Baptist; Presbyterian-Welsh Calvinistic Methodist ; Evangelical Association-United Evangelical; Congregational -Christian; Reformed-Evangelical Synod. Three separate groups formed the United Lutheran Church. In Canada the Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregational Churches fused in the United Church of Canada...
...Five new lighted airways, including a northern transcontinental route from Minneapolis to Seattle and a line down the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans...