Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Malaria. Two million people die yearly from malaria. In the British Empire the yearly loss from malarial deaths and incapacities is about $300,000,000. A mosquito, Anopheles quadrimaculatus (southern U. S.) carries the disease fully 1½ miles from its breeding place in stagnant waters. These breeding spots must be cleaned up, the Board taught 12 states here. It explained the same in Porto Rico, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Palestine, the Philippines, Hayti, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ceylon...
Nevertheless, two perfectly normal gentlemen, seldom known to do the exotic, started off last week on a Southern automobile trip. One was Speaker Nicholas Longworth, big-chested, blushing, back-slapping Republican leader of the House, natty Presidential hopeful. His gasoline buddy was C. Bascom Slemp, of Virginia, "gleaner and harvester of Southern delegations to Republican National Conventions...
Word came, early in June, that one Bennet J. Doty of Memphis, Tenn., legionnaire, had left the French lines in southern Syria where the Foreign Legion is campaigning against the Druse tribesmen. He had deserted his post before armed rebels. Last week Damascus courts martial eyed the facts that M. Doty's attitude was defiant, that his offense was so grave that its penalty is death, that desertions were becoming all too frequent in the Legion, that "home-sickness" is an insipid plea...
...Kent's clearly-defined, well-timed exposures of three important Southern topics may be summarized as follows...
...Colin Orr perished beneath a tumbling chimney. The town of Padang, Sumatra, collapsed in one thundering crash. Cairo reported over 4,000 houses in ruins. In Crete, the worst damage was demolition of archaeological treasures, especially at the Museum of Candia. Germany felt several shocks; also France, Italy, Southern Rhodesia and the seismograph at Georgetown University (Washington, D. C.). Studying their charts of the globe's temblor areas, scientists had no explanation for the simultaneous shuddering of such widely separated portions of the terrestrial crust, save that earthquakes are all due, ultimately, to redistribution of surface soils by rainfall...