Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NORTH AND SOUTH SHAKE SWEATY HANDS OVER PLOW" -Thus yelped a headline in the Chicago Tribune. The cause was a convention of 80 farm organizations at St. Louis, Mo., where midwestern and southern delegates demanded immediate legislation by Congress to "enable the farmers to control and manage excess of crops at their own expense, so as to secure cost of production with reasonable profit." They approved of the Federal Farm Board plan, backed by Frank O. Lowden of Illinois. They defended the farm bloc as a political unit. Just as onetime Governor Lowden is the potent friend of farmers...
Berry School. Busy Henry Ford found time to make a special trip to Rome, Ga., on visit to Rooseveltian Martha Berry and her school. Less than 25 years ago Miss Berry, Southern gentlewoman, taught Sunday School to "po' whites" of the mountain district in northwest Georgia. From this grew Berry school, unique, appealing. In the mountains of the South were 4,000,000 impoverished, illiterate descendants of sturdy English-Scotch stock. Their ancestors, not wealthy enough to own slaves, did well as farmers while the original fertility of soil remained. Ignorant of modern refertilization, they grew so poor...
Rosenwald Fund. In 1914, Julius Rosenwald, most notable of Chicago philanthropists, established a co-operative fund for helping southern Negroes to education. By report last week 3,400 school buildings have since been erected. Public school authorities have contributed $8,402,580 to the total cost of the scheme, white citizens $694,142, Negro citizens $3,110,410 and the Rosenwald Fund $2,621,814. Alfred K. Stern, executive director of the Fund, commenting on this report, stated in The Survey: "The most outstanding feature to my mind is the fact that the Negroes have contributed about as much...
Howard Elliott, a third string substitute, scored three touchdowns and kicked three extra points by way of helping Southern California ha-ha Idaho...
...shift for themselves. The coal-mining industry, that is one of the largest in England has been almost totally paralyzed by the rise in the development of water power and its use in manufacturing. The poverty in some of the coal districts is terrifying and almost unbelievable. In the southern part of Wales people are living on crusts of bread, amid conditions of filth that defy description. It is among the workers in such quarters as these that the sentiment for a powerful Labor party arises. You will find very little Labor sentiment among the agricultural sections...