Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week all the southern gentlemen in South Africa were incensed when Jaerl Nafte was convicted of manslaughtering Sixpence and sentenced not only to seven years' imprisonment but to receive ten lashes at the whipping post. Never before had a white man been sentenced to be kibokoed in South Africa for kibokoing a blackamoor. Irate Protestant editors called Catholic Judge Saul Solomon, K. C, who imposed the sentence, "negrophilist...
...Vincent Benet's in John Brown's Body. In his graceful manner he merely fashions what his publishers are pleased to call belles lettres. In spite of this he commands a host of readers. Sensitive to nuances of a bygone age, he distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues of cedars, and shaded with willows and live oaks and linden, were planted with white flowers-Cape jasmines, bridal wreath, white japonica, sweet alyssum and white althea...
...unfortunate juggle went dustbin-bound. The juggler was Leonor F. Loree, able head of Delaware & Hudson. His performance was called The Fifth Trunk Line. The broken pieces were 135,000 shares of Cotton Belt (St. Louis Southwestern R. R.). These shares were sold by the Kansas City Southern to a Manhattan holding company; the sale having been dictated by the I. C. C. With them went the last vestige of the Fifth Trunk Line which Juggler Loree had spent some four years attempting to construct. For union of the Kansas City Southern and the Cotton Belt was essential...
...British Isles, however, which leaves Canada's leadership somewhat unstable. Exports to South America showed a general increase, Argentine buying almost 10% more U. S. merchandise in 1928 than in 1927. Increases both in Argentina and Brazil, also in Mexico, resulted chiefly from U. S. autos southern bound. Low sugar prices were reflected in declining exports to Cuba...
This 9,000-mile jaunt is the result of the curiosity of N.D. Vaughan '29, who is a member of the party exploring in the distant Southern icefields. Papers are scarce there, and up-to-date news unheard of. So Vaughan, eager to learn what Crimson teams have done this year, wrote to the publicity office of the H. A. A.; and in reply a complete summary of Harvard's victories and defeats will be broadcast from Schenectady Saturday or Sunday evening, probably on the low-wave radio-phone transmitter...