Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graves of the Yale Forestry School has announced that the Yale Corporation, with the approval of the Athletic Association, has set aside 200 acres of the Ray Tompkins Memorial tract near the new Yale golf course as a preserve for the native plant and wild life of this region...
...hard coal strike commenced Sept. 1, and threw out of work 158,000 men. These highly unionized workers are now enjoying an indefinite autumn vacation. Yet small town merchants in the coal region complain of the brake put on their business...
...West Virginia coal fields are unionized only in small part. But Van A. Bittner, agent of the United Mine Workers, has been busy there trying to bring that region under the Union's dominance. He issued a strike order that took effect last week, and the mine leaders led by Mr. Lewis went down to celebrate the opening of the strike in an effort to make it successful...
...only whether the Union shall gain as complete control of bituminous coal mining as it has of anthrasite, but also of whether the anthracite strike shall be successful. For while the anthracite mines are shut, a good part of their clientele is being supplied from the West Virginia bituminous region. A strike in West Virginia would make the Pennsylvania strike, effective...
With the General near, the Reichswehr goose-stepped, saluted, and were proudly inspected amid a furor of monarchist enthusiasm. Alas, as night fell and the General departed, the peasants of the region (Polish sympathizers) would offer the resplendent Reichswehr only pigpens as billets, withstood weary soldiers with pitchforks. Enraged, the authorities arrested hundreds of peasants and temporarily confiscated their property for military purposes...