Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairmount, W. Va., a certain John Albericon visited his doctor. He then went to see the district president of the United Mine Workers of America, who referred him to pickets at one of the little "wagon mines" which supply the odd-lot coal trade in northern West Virginia. The pickets let the mine supply Mr. Albericon after reading this entry on a medical prescription blank (as noted last week by Scripps-Howard Reporter Fred W. Perkins...
Monarchists. Meanwhile another reason was advanced for the delay of Dictator Franco's victory parade: he was afraid to demobilize. A Paris dispatch to the New York Times told of troubles the fascist-minded Spaniards (including the Generalissimo) were having with the Carlists, the monarchy-loving Spaniards of northern Spain. Instead of giving up their arms, Carlists have been hiding them. Carlists have been even more vociferous than Britons in demanding the departure of the Italians, who if anything are more unpopular in northern Spain than Germans. So fearful was Dictator Franco of Carlist trouble that soon after...
...scientist eminently well equipped for this study is Carleton Stevens Coon of Harvard, a large, ursine, pleasant-mannered and persevering anthropologist who has spent the past eight years traipsing all over Europe, eastern Asia and northern Africa, photographing and measuring all kinds of people, studying human skeletal material of all ages, and writing a book. This week, while Dr. Coon was vacationing in the Azores with his wife, his book, a richly documented treatise aimed at "the college audience," was published...
...I.R.A. While deploring its anti-British tactics, they, like other Irishmen, publicly approve its ideal of a free, united Ireland. The bishops' position in Eire is so satisfactory, however, that many of them would gladly let well enough alone, despite the plight of the unhappy Catholic minority in Northern Ireland. The most ardent partisans of Irish rebellion are to be found in the U. S., where a great many of the Catholic clergy are of Irish origin. In Manhattan last month, I.R.A. clubs joined other Irish groups in a "monster commemoration" of Ireland's Easter Week Rebellion...
...Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, a tea party on the Provincial Commissioner's lawn was interrupted by a wild baboon. The guests fled and he finished their pastry, picked some flowers, disappeared. Same night the pleased baboon returned, rang the doorbell hopefully, was shot...