Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Back to Anarchy" seemed a glib phrase to describe last week the splitting of Chinese factions into unstable fractions of themselves. A month ago one could refer in general terms to a Northern and a rival Southern Chinese government. But last week these large groupings of power had decentralized into the hands of a few generals, politicians and adventurers precariously maintaining themselves in China's chief cities...
Nanking. Marshal Chiang Kaishek, recently Generalissimo of all the Southern (Nationalist) armies, set up a Cabinet, at Nanking, last week, to regularize his newly proclaimed government (TIME, April 25). Marshal Chiang, who represents the conservative Nationalist wing, assigned only two cabinet portfolios...
...those of us who have been reading the stories of the flood situation in the South, it may seem that there is much exaggeration, but from my own observation of conditions in Southern Illinois, Arkansas and Tennessee last week, I do not feel that the stories printed in the Metropolitan papers are at all over drawn. To be sure, those of us who visited Memphis and the surrounding country had very little opportunity to see much of the extended flood areas. We did, however, see sufficient to convince us that the local people were probably right when they said this...
...first view of the flood came at about 3 o'clock in the morning when we reached Southern Illinois and the Cairo district. For more than three hours the train crept very slowly over road beds which were almost entirely submerged. It gave one a rather creepy feeling to go along mile after mile and watch the water from one tram windows--water which in many cases was over the rails on which we were riding, and which entirely hid from our view the rails next us on the embankment...
Devastated areas. Southern Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas were the worst flood sufferers. In the streets of Judsonia, Ark., water reached a depth of four feet; one estimate placed 2,000,000 Arkansas acres under water. The entire town of Columbus, Ky. (pop. 654) was abandoned. Columbus, Ky., though hardly more than a village, was founded 105 years ago and at one time was considered as possible site for the national capital. Levees at Memphis, Tenn., were populous with slimy, writhing snakes, flooded out of their swampy homes...