Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went the game last fortnight. But after May i, the answer was a different one. The resignation of Col. White took effect that day. Aged 71, having served as U. S. Treasurer since 1921, Col. White was going to be president of the newly formed Southern Mortgage Guaranty Corp. of Chattanooga, Tenn. People in Washington knew that Chattanooga was gaining a gallant citizen. Col. White was North Dakota's Governor in 1901-1905. He commanded an infantry regiment...
...Watchers on the mountains above happy Honolulu descried a blur, then some blotches, then a forest, then an armada on the cobalt southern horizon of Hawaii. It was the U. S. battle fleet, 82 ships strong, steaming to Honolulu and Pearl Harbors for spring maneuvers. On the way out from California, an "enemy" had been met and adroitly disposed of. Now, nearing shore, the great fleet moved in circumspect battle formation, a giant circle of ships with the dreadnaughts in the centre, the cruisers in the perimeter and the carrier Langley out ahead releasing planes to scout far ahead...
...Admiral Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak. In 1919 he advanced from Siberia until he was within 450 miles of Moscow. Later, when he was driven back, he signed a ukase transferring the Siberian Government over which he held sway to a third White Commander, General Anton Deniken, whose armies then dominated Southern Russia...
...legitimate biological cause; homesickness and heartache are not included. This is equally true of all other inmates of zoo & circus. It has never been demonstrated that wild animals will die of captivity alone. Climate, food, disease are the three most powerful agents of death. Gorillas are much happier in southern lands, although they often adapt themselves to northern conditions. The New York Zoological Park has entertained gorillas for considerable lengths of time before sending them south; the Philadelphia Zoological Park has a grave gorilla in its younger...
...meant just another day of newspapers. Skippers of steamships next craned their necks, scanning the leaden skies for some sign of this fleeting Bremen.* But when Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, Capt. Hermann Koehl and Maj. James C. Fitzmaurice dropped onto the frozen waste of Greenly Island in Southern Labrador, far off their expected course, they gave Lighthouse Keeper Le Tempier a torch with which to light the fires of the world...