Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publisher Black. Baltimore's Publisher Van Lear Black was at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia last week, as urbane as ever, despite dismal rains. His two pilots and mechanic were hospitalized with influenza. The party flew south down Africa to Cape Town, is now working its way north...
Masses Resumed. Throughout the northern states controlled by the rebels, Catholic priests were permitted to resume the public celebration of the mass for the first time since General Calles (then President) commenced to enforce the anti-Catholic laws (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926). In Nogales, Sonora, Father Jose Pablos grimly said: "It is a fight for life! Either this present movement must triumph or we [Catholics] must once more give up our liberty...
Writing of pronunciation, some of us would like to know if "enj'yment" is the preferred pronunciation in New England. President Coolidge's speech was much enjoyed by the enormous crowd present, except for some northern harsh-nesses of his tongue...
...Empire. Oldest railroad Empire (founded in 1827) is the Baltimore & Ohio, with Daniel Willard its Emperor and Baltimore its capital. The B. & O. runs west from Baltimore to Cumberland, then stretches a long northern arm off to Chicago and a long southern arm off to St. Louis. It has also short but vital trackage between Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Through West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania and Ohio, the B. & O. map shows many little criss-cross branches. West of Cincinnati and Toledo, however, its main lines stretch out in lonely isolation and in the critical region between Philadelphia and New York...
...gives us an additional line into St. Louis and an entirely new line into Kansas City, Des Moines and Omaha. Then if we could also have the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, and the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, and build a new line south from Toledo through Ohio, we would have our northern arm (Toledo to Chicago) and our southern arm (to St. Louis) nicely connected with three splendid north-and-south railroads. In the East, we should have the Reading and the Jersey Central (25% of whose stock we control anyhow) and the Western Maryland (which we also already control...