Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they still had. Early this year President Whitefoord Russell Cole of Louisville & Nashville, a big, genial, iron-haired gentleman from Kentucky who is generally the voice of the Southern carriers, tested the ancient law of price-cutting. Passenger traffic spurted upward. Soon a few Western roads slashed fares. Great Northern announced that local passenger traffic jumped 50%. Meeting in Chicago last fortnight the Western Association of Railway Executives voted to cut all fares in the territory west of Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans for a six-month trial period starting Dec. 1. The new fares on all trains...
...first time since the Civil War, the Northern and Southern branches of the U. S. Presbyterian Church joined last week in a common enterprise. To the easternmost counties of Maryland and Virginia, between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, 6,000 of their members made solemn pilgrimage in celebration of the 250th anniversary of organized Presbyterianism...
Last week's Makemie pilgrimage began at Manokin Church, Princess Anne, with Historian William Parker Finney as speaker. At Rehobeth Church, Princeton Seminary's Dr. Joseph .Ross Stevenson, onetime Northern Moderator, said: "Presbyterianism makes its appeal to thoughtful minds." But he experienced surprise that, "with its superior resources and superb opportunities," Presbyterianism has been outstripped by such later sects as the Methodists, unknown in Makemie's time. Explained Dr. Stevenson: "We have been afraid of emotionalism-enthusiasm -and as a result have leaned more to formality and restrained respectability...
...Makemie. "with the care of all the churches on his shoulders," before a statue of him erected 25 years ago. Doubling back to look at churches at Pokomoke City and Snow Hill, the Presbyterians dined at Salisbury, listened to speeches by Missions Board Secretary Robert Elliott Speer and onetime Northern Moderator Lewis Seymour Mudge who said God's word to the church is: "Now march, and lead America that America may become wholly Christian for America's sake, for the world's sake, for Christ's sake...
...calculated to calm the anxious breast or still the palpitations of the fearful heart. Paris rose into the frenzy of Gallic jitters while Italy was officially shocked and Great Britain did its best to ignore the alarum. Dollfuss's Austria feverishly hastened its process of covering the northern border with a maze of barbed-wire, and Russian wondered whether she would be squeezed between the two outlaws, Germany and Japan...