Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Mr. Roosevelt: "I found among them [Southern Democratic leaders] a growing conviction that Governor Smith was the man with the best chance of winning. While the leaders haven't come out for him for the nomination, they will support him, in my opinion, once he is nominated...
...lose one single man, woman or child," ordered onetime Governor (now Flood Relief Director of Louisiana) John Milliken Parker last week, as flood waters broke through into central and southern Louisiana. Even as he was speaking, from 500 to 700 men, women and children were marooned on a twelve-mile remnant of what had been a 50-mile levee along the Bayou de Glaize. Scores of rescue boats struggled toward them...
...start in life, he sees in this a reminder of the difference in their stations. So he goes away to work. Then, there is the Civil War into which Jimmy jumps with gusto and out of which he emerges embittered. But the Civil War kills Stewart's father, crumbles Southern castes, gives Jimmy his victory...
...Start. Dropping its landing gear to lessen its load, the White Bird skirted the southern coasts of England and Ireland, pointed its nose toward Newfoundland. It had no wireless. It was flying north of the usual steamship lanes. An angry wind from the west was beating in its face, slowing its speed. Expecting to reach New York in 35 hours, it carried only enough gasoline for 40 hours flying...
...Appeal to College Presidents" in the May Review of Reviews, Hamilton Holt, liberal, President of Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla., let it be known that the professional taint has not yet been removed from athletics in southern colleges. Naively, he told of the money-enticed athletes whom he had ousted from Rollins College. Then he suggested a new solution...