Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wednesday night, and will leave for Princeton at 9 o'clock this morning to open the Big Three series against the Tigers on the Hobey Baker Memorial Rink, at 8.30 o'clock tomorrow night. Coach Bigelow will take 15 players, three managers, and a doctor with him on the southern invasion...
Such a row of dead republics (for Italy and Spain are really that) is startling to the votaries of government by the people. In these southern lands, popularly elected representatives are apparently incapable of wrestling with the problem of a critical period. Latin temperaments are ill-fitted to serve the causes of democracy. The political machinery of Mediterranean capitals grinds much less easily without the lubrication of fear, or admiration, to drive it forward. It is hard for the American, accustomed to a Congress, plodding undisturbed, to picture the torments of a Republican government in Southern Europe with...
...greatest prosperity in railroading was seen in the southern district, and resulted not only from the Florida boom but the general opening-up of the southeastern states which is now going on. In the East, the roads did quite well with the exception of the anthracite carriers. Western roads, however, continued to lag behind, partly as a result of competition with the Panama Canal, partly from low freight rates...
...smoking with incredibly gross lips a big cigar (labeled "Luxury"), and crushing beneath its heel a pathetic lizard-sized person (labeled "Consumer"). Since 1905, that figure has appeared more and more rarely, but last week he suffered a recrudescence. He was called "Flower Trust." U. S. Attorney Buckner of Southern New York, brought action under the Sherman Law to dissolve an alleged combination of flower growers in a dozen states and 40 wholesale dealers in flowers. It was claimed this was organized to compel the people of Manhattan to buy only hothouse flowers, thus cutting out of the market...
...motive power behind all these rumors was a document signed at London (TIME, Dec. 14) by the representatives of Great Britain, Ulster and the Irish Free State. It provides that the boundary between northern and southern Ireland shall remain as at present, and that Britain shall relinquish all claims upon the Free State for payment of Ireland's part of the British War debt. The agreement had been ratified earlier in the week by the British House of Commons and the Ulster Chamber. It awaited only the ratification of the Dáil before becoming operative. Why then...