Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hospital bed in Baltimore. The administration of the oath by Clerk Crockett made him eligible to cast his vote for the debenture plan. That made 47 to 47 in the informal poll, resting the issue with Louisiana's Broussard, the undecided Senator, a Democrat. "Nose-Holding." Southern Democrats could give the condition of the cotton planters as their reason for voting an unDemocratic subsidy, which is what the debenture plan amounts to. But Northern, city Democrats could give as their only reason a partisan desire to put President Hoover in a hole. As in 1924, they found themselves playing...
Last week the Kansas City Southern R. R. cut its wheat rate 7 cents per 100 Ib. from midwest points to gulf ports. Wheat exporters were ready to leap with joy. Then eastern railroad executives (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Reading, Lehigh Valley) met in Washington, recognized "an emergency of national proportions," volunteered to cut their freight rates from the Mississippi Valley to North Atlantic seaports on wheat for export. The reductions per bushel (60 Ib.) would be: 2 cents from Buffalo, 4 cents from Chicago, 5 cents from St. Louis...
...words crept into the strikers' back country vocabulary. Professional agitators taught them the word "sweatshop" which seemed particularly applicable to Southern mills, with their hungry hum ming machinery, high humidity,* closed windows, lint-laden air. Said one striker: "I ain't afeared of Hell. I've spent 20 summers in the mills...
...climax of Tel Aviv's celebration was a parade of the city's native-born children. The first manchild, now 20, proudly presented a bouquet to the city's first and only Mayor, Meyer Diezengoff. Great Britain was represented by Maj. J. E. F. Campbell, District Commissioner of Southern Palestine, who made his speech in fluent Hebrew...
Tomorrow, the remaining matching between the northern and southern groups of the College Golf League will be played here. In these contests, Harvard will meet Georgetown in the morning and Princeton in the afternoon...