Word: south
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Carolina mills, where weavers, without organizing, had struck against new orders calling for increased production from each employe, strikers began to dribble back to their looms as stopwatches disappeared and efficiency experts' reports went into office trash-baskets...
...made the announcement last week, together with a statement that Norman Prince's father, Frederick Henry Prince of Prides Crossing, Mass., who was mentioned for U. S. Ambassador to France (TIME, April 15), had made a "generous gift" toward the construction of a $200,000 chapel in the south choir aisle where his son will rest. Three famed dead now rest within the cathedral's gaunt unfinished walls: Woodrow Wilson, Admiral George Dewey, Melville Elijah Stone. A brave aviator, Norman Prince, after 122 aerial combats in which he brought down five hostile planes, was killed in October...
...forthcoming law enforcement commission. Suggested names: Boston's William H. Lewis, Cleveland's Perry E. Davis, Washington's Municipal Judge James A. Cobb. The President was told that Negroes want an opportunity to disprove the charge that blackamoor drinking habits make it necessary for the South to uphold prohibition...
...contract to build the first subway on the West coast of South America was secured, last week, by Don Luis Lagar-rigue, potent Chilean engineer. For the sum of $2,200,000 he will lay 30 blocks of subway under Santiago's famed avenue, the Alameda de las Delicias...
...France, denounced them both. The pious dared not listen to the dean of the Academic. "There was not a soul in the boxes and not one woman in the house. In all, three hundred baldpates. It was funereal." The lecture tour was salvaged by substituting a laudatory address on South America. The original lectures now appear in book form to make pleasant if somewhat disappointing reading. From the mass of anecdote that has accumulated about the figure of the famed 16th Century Gascon, Lecturer France has gleaned the few bits that seem authentic and pieced them into the patchwork...