Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hills about the Wergha Valley awoke. Abd-el-Krim, leader of the Riffian tribesmen, began his long-awaited offensive on Fez, the northern capital. Guns roared, shells screamed and cracked in vivid detonations, spluttering the ground with jagged, death-dealing steel. Bombs dropped from airplanes whinnied as they tore down to earth where they burst with staggering force. Grenades rasped their ugly barks and poked the earth with their deadly stings. Rifles snapped and bullets spat death. Men lived and men died. The Moroccan War (TIME, May 11 et seq.) entered its most serious phase...
...dinner at which prominent men from Northern Ireland and from the Free State assembled was given last week by the Irish Club in London. Sir James Craig, Premier of Ulster, was unable to attend on account of the death of his brother; President (Premier) William T. Cosgrave of the Free State was unable to be present; but Governor General "Tim" Healy of the Irish Free State, "Tay Pay" O'Connor (the only Irish Nationalist member of the House of Commons-known as "the Father of the House"), and the Duke of York, among others, were present...
...Masonic temple at Seattle, 2,000 Baptists assembled for the 19th annual session of the Northern Baptist Church Convention. They gazed up over the platform where were emblazoned the words of the Convention motto: "On Earth, Peace...
...Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Minnesota are endemically affected. More than one-third of the states of the U. S. have, from time to time, recorded cases. Massachusetts provides state institutional care for lepers. It is almost impossible for leprosy to spread in the climate of the Northern U. S. So slight is the danger of infection that the act of destroying the school effects of the young Newark lazars was rather a sop to Nemesis than a scientific necessity...
...object of the Immigration Law was to get desirable immigrants from northern and western Europe, it has certainly succeeded. About 90% of the immigrant countries with quotas (filled or nearly filled) belong to that classification or its equivalent...