Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Frank Bartlette Willis was a young school teacher, college student and professor of history and economics at Ohio Northern University (Ada, Ohio), the great political names in Ohio were McKinley, Hanna, Foraker, Hay. President Garfield's sons were still on the scene. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury, Senator, Secretary of State, did not die until 1900. Ohio politics was a vivid mixture of business (two parts), religion (two parts) and state pride (one part). The twin veins of politics and religion in Mark Hanna appeared as twin veins of business and religion in Ohio's great...
Young Sinclair's logs brought a profit. He sank the money in an Oklahoma oil pool and came out with $100,000. Soon he was a millionaire producer with properties dotted all through the midwest, from southern Kansas to northern Texas. He would spot a place, buy or lease it, develop it, sell out and look for another place. He kept control of richest wells...
...Aldred interests are notably fostering a $10,000,000 bond issue for the Edison company of Milan and a $6,000,000 issue for the Adamello General Electric Co. operating throughout Lombardy. Not thus concentrated in Northern Italy are the operations of Blair & Co. who are financing a whole series of companies in Northern, Central and Southern Italy. Most notable, of course, is their issue for the Hydro-Electric Company of Piedmont, the S. I. P. (Societa Idroelettrica Peidmonte), famed because it is controlled by Il Duce's Finance Minister Count Giuseppe Volpi...
...most northern minds that enterprise seemed at first no more than a desperate incident in Italy's impending collapse into Bolshevism...
...Longoria of Mexico has returned to the land of bandits and bull-fights, after a sojourn in "New York, Chicago, and other American cities, where she has made keen observation of American morals", and gives the gravest of warnings to senoritas who might be tempted to copy their unprincipled northern sisters...