Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rivalry between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Los Angeles could not overlook it when a San Francisco man-Professor-Emeritus Bailey Willis of Stanford University, President of the Geological Society of America -freely predicted some time ago that the next mighty upheaval of the Pacific Coast would come in Southern California. As a result of that prediction, insurance rates in Los Angeles skyrocketed 200 to 2,200%. The premium of the Union Bank and Trust Co.'s building, for example, went from...
...Coal and Iron Police," badged and deputized by the Governor of Pennsylvania; uniformed, armed and paid by the operators. The Coal and Iron Police were first formed during the Civil War, to guard Northern mines from Southern raiders. During the present "civil war," some 4,000 Coal and Iron Police have been operating...
When Jefferson Davis was President of the Southern Confederacy, he and Robert E. Lee were accustomed to attend services in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Richmond, Va. The most fashionable church in the South, its pews were filled every Sunday with arch, starched ladies, who often took only a perfunctory interest in the services, and elaborately gallant grandees who, with some show of munificence, dropped their confederate greenbacks into the collection plate. St. Paul's is still a fashionable church. Its rector, the Rev. Dr. Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr., last week pleased most of his parishioners, surprised...
Engaged. Miss Mary Morris Hincks, direct descendant of John Hart, first graduate of Yale, of Bridgeport, Conn.; to Florimond Joseph Dusossoit, onetime (1917) captain of the Dartmouth football eleven, Southern Advertising Manager of TIME, the newsmagazine...
COQUETTE-A southern girl, flirting a bit too far, falls bitterly in love (TIME...