Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...southeast's idea of itself is increasingly industrial and commercial. Especially is this true of the Carolinas. where all is tobacco, peanuts and power. To Wiinston-Salem on the north, Durham on the east and the Piedmont ("Where Wealth Awaits You") Section on the south, the Duke Power Co. furnishes 849,905 h.p. to light lights and turn wheels. Duke is building additional plants on the Catawba River near Charlotte to furnish 600,000 h.p. more...
Vermont. North-and-south across Vermont run the Green mountains, dividing the state like a spinal column. Vermont governors are usually selected according to a "rule of the mountain," which provides that the western and eastern halves shall alternate in supplying the governor. This oldtime "mountain rule" was broken last fall when Vermont voters re-elected Governor John W. Weeks. Lieutenant Governor S. Holliston Jackson, "logical" candidate under the mountain rule, was drowned when Vermont was flooded (TIME...
...South Dakota. A cautious wheatlander, Governor William J. Bulow, Democrat, of South Dakota, was elected. He first saw the Atlantic ocean in 1927, observed: "It certainly looks very...
...eleven motor cars, favoring Voisins. Le, tellier has been Mayor of Deauville (which he launched as a smart resort with Eugene Cornuche), owns his own marque of champagne, keeps a smart racing stable, and draws most of his immense income from real estate scattered throughout Europe and South America, from oil fields in Mexico, and from Le Journal...
Services commemorating the 17th anniversary of Capt. Roald Amundsen's discovery of the South Pole, and his last sacrifice in efforts to aid members of the Nobile expedition into the Arctic, were held last fortnight at the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. They were sponsored by the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Said Bishop William Thomas Manning: "Amundsen's achievements were the triumph of mind and soul over matter . . . signs and proofs of our kinship with...