Word: region
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three hundred seventy-five delegates assembled from the anthracite region, bearing the standards of William J. Brennan, conservative President of District 1, and Rinaldo Cappellini, radical President-elect of that district. Everyone was set for the fray. On the first day Brennan's followers presented a resolution to the effect that Cappellini was ineligible to take office, not because improperly elected-he had a substantial majority at the elections some time ago -but because of his radical leanings. Brennan's followers were ready to stage a vigorous fight to prevent the young Italian radical from taking office. Next...
Governor Morrow, in his recent announcement, pointed out that the great increase in Canal traffic was largely traceable to the oil trade which has sprung up between California and the Atlantic states since the decline of production in the Mexican oil region around Tampico. In addition to this there was a 10% increase in the amount of other cargoes which passed through the Canal. The month of May set a new high record for tolls collected, $1,972,216. Sixty per cent, of the vessels using the Canal were United States ships...
...confirmed the monopolistic concessions granted before 1914 to the Vickers-Armstrong Syndicate for dock construction, to the French Compagnie Générale des Chemins de Fer for the railroad from Sivas to Samsun, and to the Turkish Petroleum Company, a British oil concession in the Mosul region based on a letter from a Grand Visier to a British Ambassador. Mr. Grew objected to the feature of these concessions which gave these Companies the preference in certain regions, provided their bids were as high as competing bids. " Very true," said Ismet to Mr. Grew. " Very sorry! " said Mr. Ismet...
According to the National Geographic Society, Asir is the least known region in the world. At present without any distinct boundaries, Asir is situated on the west coast of Arabia, between Hedjas and Yemen on the Red Sea. It has a population of roughly one million...
...party's following stop was at Spokane. There the President was taken on an automobile trip by the Governor and the state's two Senators and shown motion pictures of the region, the reason being that Washingtonians desire the Federal Government to undertake an irrigation project there, costing about $250,000,000. That evening at Spokane, Mr. Harding delivered an address on "unlocking the treasure house of our national resources." Without committing himself to the Columbia Basin plan, he advocated a gradual development of national resources...