Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southern friends had to explain that there are, in the South, two kinds...
Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins sailed on the Southern Cross for South America, where he will establish a base for Antarctic exploration and a flight to the South Pole. He had verified his engagement to Suzanne Bennett, actress, just before sailing...
...complex dicker between southern newspaper publishers was dismissed last week. Hands were shaken all around. The Atlanta Constitution remained in the hands of the Clark Howell family...
...Luke Lea, Tennessee hero and publisher of the Nashville Tennessean and three other southern newspapers* arranged a contract with the Howell family to purchase control of the Atlanta Constitution for $1,050,000 (in stock) plus an additional sum based on the 1927 earnings of the Constitution. A disagreement arose over the auditing of the earnings. Col. Lea and his associate bankers, Rogers, Caldwell, sued the Howell family to compel a sale for an additional $54,000. Last week both sides agreed to drop the suit...
...days later, the Count Zeppelin took 82 people on a longer trip, 620 miles, over southern Germany and Switzerland. She performed so splendidly that the flight was as lazy and as delightful as an afternoon on an ocean liner in calm weather. Yet, at one time, she stepped up her speed to 81 m.p.h. Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Wine, ham and eggs, etc., were served above Freiburg, Baden-Baden and Constance. But there was NO SMOKING, for fire is the arch enemy...