Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Empire's trade frontiers undoubtedly tended to weaken the employers front in Lancashire. The potent Rothermere press envisioned Germany and Japan as "likely to acquire, perhaps permanently" a huge volume of business sure to be lost by Britain in the event of a long strike. "The textile mills of Northern France are working at top speed." warned Viscount Rothermere's Daily Mail, "and they will reap a golden harvest of orders that ordinarily would go to Lancashire. . . Even Poland is reckoning on big profits...
...broad, carved desk in the gloomy Palazzo Chigi lay incriminating documents, the report of an investigation which Il Duce had ordered into the affairs of one of the Fascist Government's leading fiscal advisers, the Chemical & Dye Tycoon of Northern Italy, potent Deputy Ernesto Belloni, recently Mayor of Milan, repeatedly assigned as an Italian expert at the War Debt aid Reparations conferences. Evidently the report on Signer Belloni was damning. With characteristic decision Il Duce dashed on paper an order dismissing the Dye Tycoon "from every political and public activity, indefinitely...
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...Howard University Medical School at Washington, and Meharry Medical College at Nashville. Each has about 250 students enrolled, each graduates about 50 yearly. A few good students who can find no room, at Howard or Meharry can matriculate at a very few white colleges in northern states. The University of Chicago is the least exclusive. It usually has about 15 Negro students. But all the white colleges together have barely 100 Negroes on their rolls, graduate about 25 yearly...
Solution offered to the Association: let white medical leaders help Negro hospitals improve until they are fit to train internes; let new Negro hospitals be developed, particularly in northern Negro communities, make no discrimination between white and Negro medical students or internes, in schools or hospitals...