Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced this afternoon by the Dartmouth Athletic Council that the college baseball team will take a brief southern trip this spring. Engagements have been scheduled with the University of Georgetown nine at Washington, D. C. on April 8 and 9 and with the Princeton diamond men at Princeton on April...
...statesmen are amused at the rather amateur imperialism of the country which fought "to make the World safe for Democracy". There are times when a government should procrastinate but this is certainly not one of them Arbitration is generally recognized as the best solution of our difficulties with our southern neighbor. Mexico has agreed to it, even under conditions rather humiliating...
Foochow. Nationalist soldiers looted the mission quarter of Foochow, a sizable southern sea port, abducted hundreds of Chinese orphan girls cared for by the missionaries, and forced the Spanish Bishop Aguirre to flee by sea to Hongkong. British and Y, M. C. A. missions were also looted...
...Quincy Railroad (the Burlington).† So it is probable that the Commission will also, later, consider this line officially joining the others. Thus the longest railroad system in North America will evolve -longer than the Canadian' Pacific (20,000 miles), the New York Central (14,537 miles), the Southern Pacific (13,000 miles) and the Pennsylvania (11,698 miles). It will include 28,300 miles; will represent a capital investment of $650,000,000 and a valuation...
These, together with the Colorado & Southern, which brings them northern Texas cotton traffic, are the "Hill" roads that James Jerome ("Empire builder") Hill (1838-1916) developed. Now, with the Western Pacific which connects the Burlington directly to San Francisco and in which Mr. James bought controlling interest last summer (TIME, June 21), they are more aptly called "James" roads. The Hill descendants have never become active financially...