Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mountains crumble into dust than the people of Argentina and Chile break the peace which they have sworn to maintain at the feet of Christ the Redeemer" As a bearer-of-goodwill from the U. S. approached the Cumbre, in the Christmas season, on the southernmost swing of his South American pilgrimage, the lofty Andean Christ seemed to attain a new significance, perhaps: "Peace on high, goodwill to continents...
...following Hoover Cabinet in an editorial: "For Secretary of State, the Hon. Jim Vance, President and publisher of the Fellowship Forum; for Secretary of the Treasury, the Hon. F. Scott McBride, Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League; for Secretary of Labor, Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Church South; for Attorney General, the Hon. Mabel Willebrandt; for Postmaster General, the Hon. Billy Sunday; for Secretary of the Navy, the Hon. Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the K. K. K.; for Secretary of the Interior, the Hon. Ella A. Boole, National President...
...Cumberland Falls had another ramification that interested the Senate. Although locally called "the Niagara of the South," the falls are not Kentucky's or the South's greatest.*But they are famed scenically. And wealthy T. Coleman du Pont, whose health obliged him to resign last week as a Senator from Delaware, has long been seeking to buy the site and present it to his native Kentucky as a 2,200-acre state park. The Insull interests have, through a contract which was unpublished till last week, enlisted the aid of the present Republican administration in Kentucky...
...third son of George V, the Duke of Gloucester, was in South Africa when recalled. Since his speedy return was not vital he took an ordinary "mail steamer," the Balmoral Castle, from Cape Town, was expected to reach London slightly before Christmas...
Neither here nor abroad were there any pandemic outbreaks of disease last year, and in no country with a modern public health organization did pestilences spread. India continues to harbor bubonic plague, as do French Indo-China, China, Algeria, Madagascar, Nigeria, Siam, Argentina, Ecuador, South Africa, Greece, Russia. Two people in California, however, caught bubonic plague last year-from ground squirrels...