Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germans denounced Mussolini because of his recently announced intention (TIME, Feb. 15 et seq.) of continuing "rigorously, methodically and obstinately" to Italianize the Alto Adige, formerly the Southern (Austrian) Tyrol, which was transferred to Italy after...
...York had 200,000 members in 1923, and has now fewer than 100,000. A state law was passed to make it reveal its membership, but it evaded it by incorporating as a benevolent society. Its strongholds are on Long Island and in the southern and extreme western counties of the state. Its influence is merely local...
Oklahoma in 1923 claimed 90,000 members, but perhaps only 20,000 are left. Open air meetings have nearly disappeared. The Klan's hold is now confined to the southern cotton-growing part of the state. State headquarters were recently moved from a large building, where meetings had been held for three years, to a single room...
...Florida, Republican leaders have espoused the cause of dividing the state into North Florida and South Florida. The reasons given for this dichotomy are that Tallahassee, the capital, is too difficult to reach from the southern part of the state; that the northern part of the state should not be taxed for the extensive improvements needed in the southern part; that the two parts are different climatically and industrially. The proposed dividing line would cross the state east and west from a point on the Atlantic about 40 miles south of St. Augustine, to the lower part of the Suwanee...
...Geddes* returned to the U. S. last week. He came as a businessman, chairman of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co.,† to inspect their plants in Buffalo. Pressmen, scenting soapstone, pressed him for a statement on rubber. They got it in quick, definite sentences that comported strangely with his southern U. S. accent, which he had picked up as a youth working in southern lumber regions and on the B. & O. He said...