Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contradictory reports were forthcoming in the usual profusion. The position was that the rebels were strongly entrenched in what the Federals call the "hot country," that is, the states of Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco, Chiapas and Guerrero-all in southern Mexico. Numerous bands of rebels were reported abroad in more northern states. Both Federals and rebels claimed unimportant successes...
...home in the mountains of northern Italy, Gabriele d'Annunzio, intrepid poet-pilot, was reported seriously ill from gastritis...
...This alienates from the bill large manufacturers who want a well stocked labor market. To counterbalance this group there is organized labor which favors even greater restrictions. The alteration of the basis of the quota from 1910 to 1890 has the effect of a greater proportionate quota for northern and western European countries and smaller proportionate quotas for southern and eastern European countries. Until 1882 immigration from northwestern Europe was almost all our immigration, and 1882 (with less than 600,000 such immigrants) was the peak of that immigration which declined irregularly but continually to about 200,000 annually before...
...secret treaty was signed in Rome, in addition to the open agreement in which it was agreed that should the Croatians prove objectional Premier Pashitch will amputate western Croatia from Yugoslavia, Italy will occupy the Adriatic section and Hungary the northern parts...
Some enterprising journalist invited Dr. Walter E. Traprock, F. R. S., S. E. U., lecturer and author of The Cruise of the Kawa, My Northern Exposure and Sarah of the Sahara, to investigate Teapot Dome. The obliging doctor is producing a series of articles which are being syndicated for the press by Hol-Nord Features. The articles are in the form of regular news stories, under Washington date line, and contain everything but a shadow of truth...