Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic National Convention (TIME, July 7), the 40th, the 50th, the 60th, the 70th ballot passed. All records were broken. In 1860, the Democratic Convention at Charleston had balloted 57 times before splitting over the slavery issue, after which the southern delegates withdrew and the northern wing nominated Douglas on the second ballot. In 1840, the Whig Convention at Harrisburg had taken "many, many" ballots ? nobody counted them?before nominating W. H. Harrison. But even if the number of ballots at these Conventions had been as great, the endurance record would have been less, for in the earlier days...
This is a sketch of the reasons which inspire the Japanese Foreign Office to obtain from Russia the northern half of the island known as Sakhalin and Karafuto. And in return for such apparent magnanimity, Japan is willing to cancel Russia's political debt* to her and joyfully accord her de jure recognition...
...they decided to oust him and last year seized upon his theology as a pretext and charged him with heresy. The Bishop-one Harry Moore-apparently took fright at the storm of protest from beyond the borders of Texas and "quashed" the heresy proceedings on the ground that certain Northern Bishops were as liberal as the rector. But the Bishop left the stigma of heresy upon the rector, and sided with the disgruntled section of the parish in attempting to force Mr. Heaton's resignation largely by financial pressure...
...after his nomination and then started for Chicago, which welcomed him with cheers. His wife and his two adopted children, Dana, 12 and Virginia, 10, met him. He hugged them all, went to his office at the Central Trust Co. for an hour, then went home to Evanston, puritanical northern suburb of Chicago, to which Mr. Dawes is something of a tin deity...
...would be caused in awaiting the arrival of the Chairman. The appointment of Sir Adrian Knox, Chief Justice of Australia, to a committee of the Privy Council was also announced. Sir Adrian and his colleagues are to determine what legal course is to be taken in the event of Northern Ireland continuing to refuse to nominate its member on the Boun-'dary Commission. The North was again displeased, apparently because it fears that an unfavorable decision by the Council would be binding. The resignation of Premier Sir James Craig of Northern Ireland was forecast by political observers, but such...