Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took an informal poll, which indicated that there would be 52 votes against the Haugen bill in the Senate, enough to defeat it. But that did not still the disturbance. The Senators from the northeastern states were against it, and Senator Carter Glass of Virginia brought most of the southern Democrats into line against it. The advocates of the bill were led by Senator McNary of Oregon and Senator Gooding of Idaho. They included one Southerner, Senator Simmons of North Carolina, and such others as Steck of Iowa, McMaster of South Dakota, Watson of Indiana and, strangely enough, the Vice...
Five million dollars is a handsome and unusual gift for a university to receive. Five million dollars' worth of rare books is unique. The southern (Los Angeles) branch of the University of California acknowledged receipt of such a gift from William Andrews Clark Jr. The collection was made by his late father, the onetime U. S. Senator from Montana, and is housed in the son's Los Angeles residence?a Dryden collection of 882 volumes; Shakespeare in 12 folios and 42 quartos; 1,000 pieces of Oscar Wildeiana; rare editions of Byron, Shelley, Keats, Dickens, Restoration authors; a collection...
University of Southern California...
...Francisco to Salt Lake City.* It was once, financially, a hazardous railroad, an iron hope of the executors of the estate of Jay Gould for making a coast to coast system out of the Gould holdings. In the rocky country past Ogden, Utah, the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific dominated; if the Goulds wanted a new road they would have to build one over the mountains. The plan cost money-so much that the Gould roads collapsed and passed into the control of the Equitable Trust Co. Alvin W. Krech, chairman of the Western Pacific Board under the Equitable...
...rubber bubbles sailed aloft from an aviation field near Antwerp and drifted off toward the Dutch frontier. Night fell before all the bubbles had come again to earth. Dawn found one of them still coasting northeast over the boggy islands and bays of Denmark, over the fat fields of southern Sweden. Not until the wind, with its sleet and snow-squalls, threatened to drive this bubble on out over the Baltic Sea beyond Solvesborg on Hano Bay, did it descend. Then Pilots Ward T. Van Orman and Walter W. Horgan stepped out of their basket under the U. S. balloon...