Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WhenNorthern Chinese troops tried to enter the international city at Shanghai, last week, they were turned back by British "Cold Water Soldiers,"* standing motionless with fixed bayonets. Disgruntled, the Northern soldiers, mere organized bandits, turned back into the Chinese quarter and there began heartlessly to exact from helpless merchants a tribute...
...feminist problem was dropped when Rev. T. T. Shields of Toronto, Canada, President of the Bible Union, launched into an attack on John D. Rockefeller Jr. He charged Mr. Rockefeller and his pastor, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, with trying to transform the Northern Baptist Convention into "the Religious Department of the Standard Oil Co." All of which was promptly denied by Mr. Rockefeller through...
...Chicago Tribune, potent newspaper, knowing that the best scheme to maintain prestige is to fight for principle, last week invented another for which it will (editorially) battle: Purchase of Western Railroads by Western Investors.* Thus, while President Ralph Budd of the Great Northern and Harry Byram of the reorganized Milwaukee (old name: St. Paul) stump the west concerning the merger of the northwestern railroads, the Tribune argued: "What this [west] section does require from its railroads and what it is not receiving in proper measure, is prompt response to public demands for service. Translated for the railroad stockholder that means...
...legs lay straight out before him under the bed blankets. But they felt crossed and he could not move them. They were paralyzed. So was his bladder and his throat and his diaphragm. Two men whom he knew?fellow employes of the Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois (Samuel Insull, Chairman) ?stood at either side of his body. With their hands they were pushing down on his chest and squeezing air out of his lungs. When they let go, a little air would whistle back into his lungs...
...sardines" or "Indians." Last week it was Spain's turn to look for missing flyers, Uruguay's to worry. Major Tadeo Larre-Borges and three comrades, the flower of Uruguay's few aviators, had left Casablanca, Spanish Morocco, for Cape Juby, 600 miles further down the West coast of Northern Africa, in a seaplane which they sought to fly across the Atlantic. But they had not turned up at Cape Juby. The Spanish government ordered a search...