Word: southerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minority mustered the super-dry Southern Democrats (129) under party leadership of the Messrs. Garrett, Garner and Byrns; and miscellaneous Republicans (10), including wets like New York's La Guardia, drys like Iowa's Dowell...
...which was managed by a Federal administrator. In September, 1920, Government administration ended, and American Railway Express continued as an operating company whose stock was jointly held by Adams Express and American Express. American Railway Express then arranged contracts with almost every U. S. railroad (notable exception-the Southern Railroad, municipally owned) and acquired a virtual monopoly (95%,) of U. S. expressing. The contracts with the railroads included an option by which the railroads could purchase American Railway Express. These options expire Feb. 28, 1929. Last December the railroads, through a committee headed by President Storey of the Santa...
...University seismograph, now located in the University Museum, will change its abode to the southern states this summer, according to an announcement made last night by L. D. Leet, Observer of the Harvard Station. The seismograph is to be employed in searching for rich oil fields in the water-covered territory of the Mississippi Delta region of Louisiana...
...Carl Ben Eielson, who flew the Arctic with Sir George Hubert Wilkins. Both are in Antarctica now, preparing to return to the U. S. after flights in Graham Land. Australia: Capt. Charles E. Kingsford-Smith, who flew the Southern Cross from the U. S. to Australia. England: Harold ("Bert") Kinkier, solo from England to Australia. Spain...
Thus last week groveled and fawned Signer Riccardo Forster, editor of the largest news organ in Southern Italy, Il Mattino of Naples. Meanwhile, however, a very slight and cautious reaction from such typical abasement was setting in at Rome. There, a diligent official dared to criticise pampered Mario Carli, editor of L'Impero and prime favorite of Il Duce. Recently, Italian wives have been told by Signer Carli that they must bear a son every two years (TIME, Jan. 21); and intending tourists have been called "fat drones" (TIME, Jan. 28) and warned that they are not wanted...