Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese faction, the editor of the People's Tribune wrote, last week: "There are whispers of woe and impending disaster in the air." Actually the "whispers" were shouts of terror. Four armies, representing the so-called "moderate" factions of China* were encircling Hankow from all directions except the Northwest. Thus the fall of Hankow, and butchery of actual as well as so-called "Reds" there, seemed last week momentarily imminent...
Died. Louis P. Noros, 77, last survivor of the ill-fated 1879 expedition in search of the northwest passage to the north pole; led by Lieutenant Commander George Washington DeLong; in Providence, R. I. Died. Thomas Dixon Lockwood, 78, inventor of the automatic telephone call, retired official of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; at Melrose, Mass...
...farthest flight northwest of Barrow, made last year by Captain Wilkins (TIME, April 19), was 100 miles. The area seen by Explorers Amundsen, Ellsworth and Nobile from the Norge was a zone varying between 10 and 100 miles in width, due north of Barrow...
...Seattle, the Seattle Bond & Stock Exchange opened last week, the first securities' exchange in the Pacific Northwest...
...president of the interallied technical board which improved trans-Asian travel during and after the War. They would know him, perhaps, in West Gardiner, Me., where he was born, "chock full of energy." They might know him almost anywhere between the Mississippi and the Pacific, especially in the Northwest, where he laid out vast stretches of the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern roads. Near Havre, Mont., there is a statue to jog the memory. It stands on a bleak ridge where, after visits to the camps of treacherous Blackfeet Indians, Mr. Stevens learned that below the ridge was a secret...