Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterday struck home like a blow from the hammer of Thor. I refer to your treatment of the recent sad incident in the life of Frank Norris in TIME, July 26 [RELIGION, p. 18], which I regard as an unwarranted irruption of blackguardism. I hold no brief for the Southern preacher ; if a fair trial establishes the fact that he is guilty he should pay the penalty for his crime. Neither do I defend Fundamentalism and Fundamentalists as such ; but I do believe in the integrity of the Bible as the sure word of God including the Genesis story...
...stone turret for U. S. guns, is known as "the stationary battleship." But experts consider Corregidor to be as impregnable as Gallipoli or Gibraltar ; its heavy armaments have longer range than the guns of any existent warship. **The Bacon Bill provides for a separate government for the southern islands (where the Moros live) and strengthens the authority of the Governor General...
...Republicans, whenever they united, could outvote the regular Republicans. But actually to control the Senate and be able to organize its committees, the Democrats must have at least 49 members. They now have 39, are not in danger of losing any, because the seven Democratic vacancies are all from Southern states which do not know how to cast Republican votes. Thus, the Democrats must topple the G.O.P. in ten states. In Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, the Democratic chances are good, in fact better than in any election since Wilsonian times. Assuming victories in these seven states...
Senator Borah, oratorically extraordinary gentleman from Idaho, a fortnight ago tramped southward to Augusta, Georgia, heart of the Southern "Dry" belt; there, naturally, made a speech Volsteadian in tone. He deplored "nullification" of the 18th Amendment, did Mr. Borah. Yet, had it not been for the lazy hot sun, many a disenfranchised Negro might have scented an anomaly, might have pointed out to the Senator that here, indeed, was where pride-wounded "Colonels" first conceived the effective thought of "nullification." Others, not Negroes, have made this fact clear...
...world. Canada is next with one-fourth as much. Iowa leads the U. S. Acreage was cut down from last year. Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas report excellent crops. In northern Illinois the fields are good; but smut has appeared in the southern counties...