Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee loomed twice in the news last week-once when five Rockefeller millions were bestowed upon them to help make them a national park (see p. 12), and again when White House whispers said that President Coolidge might spend his summer vacation on a southern eminence with the Great Smokies for his western horizon. Philip S. Henry of Asheville, N. C., had offered President Coolidge the use of "Zealandia," the Henry mansion on Beaucatcher Mountain...
Accessible to three-fourths of the country's population, containing a dozen peaks higher than anything north of Virginia's southern boundary, except Mt. Washington in New Hampshire (6293 ft.), still frequented by Cherokee Indians, the new park will be advertised as a rival of Yellowstone, Glacier, Yosemite. In place of naked peaks it raises up lofty, rolling domes fringed with balsam. Its bears are black instead of grizzled and the deer frisk white tails in place of the western black. For lodgepole pines and wind-torn spruce, are substituted every variety of tree and shrub that...
...Hill, the last negative speaker, showed the harshness of southern states toward the negro. In Alabama the penalty for "intermarriage or intermixture" is imprisonment for from two to seven years. "And the affirmative maintains that intermixing is desirable, when a lynching awaits such a marriage!" he said. "According to the constitutions of five southern states, a man with one-eighth negro blood is a negro...
...Southern trip, April...
...University schedule includes 14 games with a southern trip of four games at its beginning, while the Freshmen will play five games, two of them away from home. Informal practice has been going on under the direction of J. B. Lane '28, captain of this year's team...