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...Atlantic seaboard Senators came out against ratification because tonnage would be diverted from their ports. For President Roosevelt, most painful disaffection of all was that of the two erstwhile loyal Senators from his home State, Messrs. Copeland and Wagner. Each was in favor of the power project section of the treaty, fondly fostered by Mr. Roosevelt when New York's Governor. But they remembered that New York has its own small Lakes-to-Atlantic waterway...
...nation's opposite seaboard, another Governor was being bedevilled for taking precisely the opposite view of lynching from Governor Rolph's. Month before a mob at Princess Anne, Md. had hanged and burned a Negro named George Armwood, accused of raping an aged countrywoman (TIME, Oct. 30). When the local prosecutor failed to act on the cases of four men accused of having taken part in the lynching, Maryland's handsome Governor Ritchie sent 325 militiamen to round up the accused, bring them back to Baltimore (TIME, Dec. 4). Farmers and fishermen of the Eastern Shore bridled...
...fares cut more than one-half, net earnings nevertheless increased appreciably. With these heartening precedents, more than 1,000 lines west of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio and Potomac applied for and received from I. C. C. permission for a 2? rate effective Dec. 1, Southern and Seaboard Airline reduced to 1½?. These resurgent railroads happily announced that they can now carry passengers cheaper and faster than buses or private cars. Comparative fares...
...Irish-born Scottish Presbyterian named Rev. Francis Makemie journeyed to the Colonies, at the earnest request of Marylanders who had not enough ministers. Presbyterianism had been recognized, under the Act of Religious Toleration, as a sect against which no derogatory remarks were to be made. Up & down the seaboard there were scattered churches of ''Dissenters." none of them orthodox. (Two are still extant, in Hempstead and Jamaica, L. I., the former being the first U. S. church to bear the name Presbyterian.) Pioneer Makemie organized in Maryland the first five truly Presbyterian churches. In Philadelphia...
...best collection of moth-eaten architectural motifs ever gathered in Milwaukee. . . . The exhibition shows the best of good taste in current architecture, but no progressive thought. Our English type houses have out-Englished the English. We are building better colonial homes than can be found in the seaboard towns along the Atlantic . . . but this exhibit contains only two examples of progressive thought. All else is borrowed from other times and other countries and hashed over...