Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bills creating a new Federal District in North Carolina, additional Federal District Judges in the Connecticut, Maryland, Western New York, Northern California, Eastern Michigan and Eastern Pennsylvania districts. To the Pennsylvania post the President appointed W. S. Kirkpatrick of Easton...
...Dropped impeachment charges against Federal Judge Frank Cooper of the Northern District of New York...
Major General John Duncan, Commander of the British expeditionary forces at Shanghai (TIME, Feb. 7) shrewdly ordered, last week, a maneuver similar to that of the great Duke of York in the above nursery chanty. General Duncan saw that something must be done to impress the Northern Chinese in Shanghai and the Southern Chinese who are trying to capture it with the idea that Britain has a real army in China, will soon have 30,000 men at or near Shanghai, and means to protect her interests permanently.* How could all this be better said to Chinese than...
Along the Chinese battlefront west of Shanghai all was suspiciously quiet last week. Suddenly the subordinate Northern general* in command of Shanghai's immediate defenses went over to the Southern enemy, ordered the 2,000 troops under his command to withdraw back toward Shantung whence they came only a fortnight ago (TIME, March 7). Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave...
President Coolidge selected him as a member of the board to investigate the northern flight in the Shenandoah. In the World War, Bartlett wore the strips of Lieutenant-Commander in the American Navy. During this period his knowledge of the North Atlantic was used in planning the trips of the transport ships...