Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many Southern Democrats, it was strong medicine when in 1932 Franklin Roosevelt wooed the Northern Black Belt as no Democrat had done in mortal memory. When he gave Negroes prominent seats at his inauguration, put them in bigger jobs than they ever held in a Democratic administration, Southern Democrats tried hard to swallow it as political expediency. Such demagogues as Georgia's Eugene Talmadge gagged for public edification when, during the 1936 campaign, Mrs. Roosevelt was photographed between two young Negro officers of the R.O.T.C. at Washington's Howard University. But in this year's primary fight...
...tumbled mountains of Northern California, among which Mount Shasta's snowy crest is the noblest (14,161 ft.), rush three sturdy rivers-the Pit, the McCloud, the Sacramento-to unite under the latter's name in a deep valley just above Redding, Calif. Since 1866 engineers have dreamed of throwing up a dam below the rivers' confluence, to stabilize the water supply of the whole fertile Sacramento Valley. Besides irrigation and flood control, hydroelectric power would be a byproduct, perhaps making profitable the mining of iron ores now locked in the wild Siskiyou Mountains north of Shasta...
...Bureau of Reclamation (Department of the Interior) gave the go-ahead signal to Pacific Constructors, Inc., a 12-company syndicate which successfully bid $35,939,450 for the erection of Shasta Dam. Final moneys for this purpose were voted by the last Congress. The project, which will do for Northern California what Herbert Hoover's Boulder Dam does for Southern California, is now entirely financed by the Federal Government, which hopes to get the money back from water sales in 40 years...
...Tropic of Capricorn runs through the Chaco, the Tropic of Cancer just north of Cuba. The area between the Tropics includes Central America, the jungles of the Amazon, the West Indies, the least habitable parts of Africa, the East Indies and the deserts of northern Australia...
...popular belief that intelligence knows no geography, that a bright child is just as likely to be born on a southern plantation as in a northern tenement. But Army intelligence tests during the War challenged this theory, and last week, after a careful statistical investigation, an educator concluded that the place where a child is born has a great deal to do with the chances of his being intelligent. Dr. Glenn Myers Blair separated 3,000 junior and senior high-school youngsters in Everett, Wash, into mentally superior and inferior groups and then determined where their parents, nine...