Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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COQUETTE-Helen Hays as a young Southern lady who plays too dangerously with the fire of caprice (TIME...
...Southern Pacific Railroad
...Tall call boys on platforms, before stock price recording boards in brokerage offices abbreviate in order to keep up with racing tickers. Allied Chemical and Dye is cried: "Acid," Texas Gulf Sulphur "Tiger Lily," Bethlehem Steel "Betsy Steel," Southern Pacific "Soup," Standard Oil of New Jersey "John...
Then, as a private citizen, Frémont set out for California by the southern route, almost died of starvation while some of his guides nibbled a human body. That was in 1849 when "time was worth fifty dollars a minute," but Frémont did not know it. He arrived in California to find gold-mad whitemen, redmen, yellowmen, blackmen, and himself the owner of the golden Mariposa veins. His wife came by boat and soon their home was filled with "hundred-pound buckskin sacks, worth not far from $25,000 each." California's richest man and most...
...follow. The campaign was a bitter one. Frémont was the presidential nominee of the new and crusading Republican (Free Soil) party, supported by the leading newspapers and liberals of the North. Conservative northerners feared to have so impetuous a man in the White House when southern Democrats were shouting: "Tell me, if the hoisting of the Black Republican flag . . . by a Frenchman's bastard, while the arms of civil war are already clashing [in Kansas], is not to be deemed an overt act and declaration of war?" So, placid Fillmore of the Whig party took enough votes...