Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benito Mussolini in Rome last week flashed a report from Addis Ababa. Italy's active Viceroy of Ethiopia, Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, reported he had just made a swing around recently-conquered Southern Ethiopia with a guard of 50, received without incident the homage of thousands of lowland Ethiopians who traditionally hate the highlanders of whom Haile Selassie...
According to Mr. Landis, the round-table debates left quite a lasting impression on some of the dignitaries. It seems that it was a standing joke in Washington last spring to offer "T. V. A. Cigars" to Wendel F. Wilkie, president of the Commonwealth & Southern Company. This gift that never failed to produce a positive reaction on Arthur Morgan's chief opposition at the conference last year...
...that majoring in Religion gives them a firm foundation for such vocations as selling insurance. While "Dr. Bob," as his students call him, is on preaching tours, his 25-year-old son Bob Jr. becomes acting president of the college. Bob Jones Sr. writes a syndicated column for 200 southern newspapers, gets out a weekly called Fellowship News. No hellfire evangelist, "Dr. Bob" is zealous, says proudly: "We don't hire any teacher who believes in Evolution. We tell students about Darwin, Huxley and Spencer, but we also tell them that evolution isn't science...
...quarter-century ago in the southern part of Madagascar, a herdsman of the savage Tandroy tribe was tending his cattle on the banks of a river swollen by the torrential rains of late December and January. The tribesman caught sight of an object, bobbing lightly on the turbid water, which he would have described, had he chanced to be a U. S. college man, as a soiled white football. When he fished it ashore he saw that it was an egg, and its great size recalled to his mind the stories he had heard around village fires of a mighty...
...Illinois, Henry Horner, a lawyer, was of a different mind. To Mayor Dickmann he dispatched an urgent telegram: "Before you take final action on the ordinance before you, may I ask you fully consider the unnecessarily drastic effect which its enforcement will have on the coal industry in 15 southern Illinois counties, adjacent to St. Louis, employing 29,000 wage earners, and sending 4,000,000 tons of coal annually to your city, which is the natural market place for these counties...