Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tribes of Southern South America", Professor Dixon, Peabody Museum...
Ernest Lee Jahncke Jr., 49. of New Orleans, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The yachting instinct is now strong in the U. S. sea service, for, like Secretary Adams, Mr. Jahncke is a potent amateur sailor, commodore of the Southern Yacht Club of New Orleans, a member of the New York Yacht Club. In technical qualification for his post he operates one of the largest dry docks in the South; he is a civil and mechanical engineer, a naval architect. He directs large Louisiana banks, is a member of the International Olympic Games Committee. Mr. Jahncke...
...Southern interest was further excited by reports that President Hoover was going to appoint, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the Democrat who held that post under President Wilson-Cato Sells of Texas. Mr. Sells now represents that considerable body of Democrats who deserted their party last year to support Herbert Hoover...
...South whites did not let Negroes handicap them in this curious competition. Both races committed practically the same number of murders. In ten Southern cities there were last year 731 killings, an average rate of 38.6 murders per 100,000. In the country's six largest communities the number was twice as great (1,513), the rate one-fourth as high...
...Leading Southern Cities...