Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diego, Calif., loaded to the scuppers with U. S. marines last week, but announced that she was merely sailing for "a secret destination in the Orient." British statesmen, not so subtle, baldly admitted that 12,000 British troops were being rushed to China last week-thereby enraging both the northern and southern factions of the Chinese Civil War. Retaliation. The northern War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, expressed his displeasure by knocking out the kingpin of the whole fiscal structure upon which foreign loans to China rest. The structure is the Chinese Maritime Customs Bureau, the duties collected by which...
...Rise of the Economic Supremacy of Northern Europe", Professor Usher, Economics 10b, Widener...
...Both Northern and Southern leaders have affirmed that they would afford full protection to foreigners but this statement has not been strictly adhered to Foreign property has been seized and in some cases destroyed, missionaries have been driven from interior points and bodily harm to them has been reported in some instances. This, however, is usually the work of irresponsible mobs...
...Senators were confused by the contentions of religious bodies. Early in January the Senators received a telegram, signed by Bishop William T. Manning, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman and James Cannon Jr. It read: "Northern Baptist Church, Methodist Episcopal Church South, Reformed Church in their respective conventions and the bishops ot the Episcopal Church have denounced the Lausanne Treaty...
These, together with the Colorado & Southern, which brings them northern Texas cotton traffic, are the "Hill" roads that James Jerome ("Empire builder") Hill (1838-1916) developed. Now, with the Western Pacific which connects the Burlington directly to San Francisco and in which Mr. James bought controlling interest last summer (TIME, June 21), they are more aptly called "James" roads. The Hill descendants have never become active financially...