Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first trial, held under a change of venue in the little town of Bartow about 48 miles east of Tampa, was a broad education to Northern reporters, particularly representatives of the radical Press. Wires were tapped, rooms searched, frame-up attempted. At least one had the novel experience of being shadowed in his leisure moments by the defendants, who were free on bail. Presiding Judge was Robert T. Dewell, a corpulent Yaleman (Class of 1911), who was overwhelmed with appeals for impartiality from fellow Yalemen in the North. Five defendants were convicted and sentenced for kidnapping...
...Park, Ill., second of a family of six, he was only two when his father, a doctor who was also a sports enthusiast, handed him a fishing rod, was not yet in his teens when he graduated to shotgun and rifle. On long hunting trips in northern Michigan he was his father's regular companion. In other respects, he was not so filial. His father had hopes of his becoming a doctor; his mother, artistically inclined herself, wanted him to be a cellist and rigidly enforced hours of supposed practice in which non-musical Hemingway, by "just sitting thinking...
Chief personal satisfactions to the chub-cheeked Premier were three: the defeat of handsome, dapper Earl Rowe, new Conservative leader, the victory of Gordon Conant, Hepburnite, at Oshawa-scene of last April's C. I. O. strike against General Motors, squashed by "Mitch"-and a Liberal victory in northern Ontario, stronghold of the C. I. O. mining unions...
...Nanking. (Mme Chiang's present whereabouts undisclosed for military reasons.) My heart is chilled by the thought of what is coming over the rest of the land in the near and distant future, with our ports blockaded, our wide northern regions being torn by ruin, and all about us here doomed to demolition...
Most Negroes are Baptist, 3,500,000 belonging to the National Baptist Convention. The African M. E. Zion Church has 500,000 members, the Colored M. E. Church, founded with the aid of white Southern Methodists, numbers 300,000. Same 210,000 Negroes belong to black congregations of Northern Methodist jurisdiction, will be grouped in a jurisdiction of their own (against the will of many Negroes) if the proposed merger of Southern and Northern Methodists goes through (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935, et seq.). The church which Philadelphia's Bishop Allen founded claims 1,000,000 members...