Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winter Olympics, scheduled to be held at Sapporo in Northern Japan, will probably be offered to Oslo...
...week (see pp. 36, 43) engineers feared that he might be flying out into radio silence. There was sunspot trouble. Only a few-hours before the take-off RCA's mighty Riverhead, L. I., communication station had a complete wipe-out of shortwave signals. The Hughes route (a northern circle notably poor for radio transmission) did not look promising...
...northern journalist ever wrote so pungently of the South's squalor as Southerner Erskine Caldwell (Tobacco Road). This week a southern journalist, Jonathan Daniels, published a more sympathetic account of the South...
...Eastbound from Missoula, a huge Northern Pacific freight locomotive, with 75 cars behind and a hundred hoboes riding, blew up in Hell Gate Canyon with the mightiest roar Montana has heard since Paul Bunyan passed by. Dead when help came were the engineer, the fireman, the brakeman, two hoboes. So shattered was the engine that railway officials despaired of determining just what had happened. But in the Northern Pacific offices at Philadelphia, 2,000 miles away, there had lain for weeks a document containing a fantastically possible answer: two typewritten pages reporting a conversation overheard on the Camden-Philadelphia ferry...
...excuse for doing nothing. Despite lynchings,* he believes that Negroes and whites have lived together in relative quiet, decency and peace, and that if the South is to rise, both races must rise together. He concludes that the tariff hurt the South more than Sherman ever did, that a northern economic occupation is now ending just as its military occupation once ended. From northerners, he asks only forbearance: Cato the Elder destroyed Carthage, he says, and planted it with salt, but he did not afterwards ride through Carthage and blame its poverty on the Carthaginians...