Word: southwesterners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mexican Scabs. Delegates from Arizona and California railed bitterly against the streams of Mexican immigrants which, not restricted by any U. S. quota law, flood the southwestern labor market and supplant union labor in times of strikes as far north as the Pennsylvania coal fields. Other delegates were less deeply perturbed by the Mexican "menace" and the convention voted only to urge the Mexican Government to restrict its emigration voluntarily...
...caravan consisting of a soft-seated motor bus and four automobiles will purr out of Winfield, Kan., on July 9, carrying 45 students of Southwestern College on a tour of 22 U. S. states, and two provinces of Canada. It will not be a mere rubber-necking tour, for Dr. William M. Goldsmith, who is in charge of the expedition and of Southwestern's biology department, has promised to instruct as well as point out. The students will visit Mount Vernon, Va., and Bunker Hill, Mass., as well as the Metropolitan Art Museum and the Museum of Natural History...
...John Roach Straton (loud-speaking Fundamentalist) told his Manhattan congregation: "As one I rejoice that Lindbergh did not step out of his plane on the fields of France with a cigaret hanging from the southwestern segment of his lip or a liquor breath upon which the President of the French Republic might have hung...
...place a long time ago. He has never remarried and has stricken mention of an unhappy episode of his youth from public records of his life. His reputation is high and enviable, as Nebraska pastor (1894-1901), as; U. S. Army chaplain (1901-10), as mission secretary for the southwestern U. S. (1910-13), as chaplain of West Point...
These three railroads, all serving the same territory, all carrying the same type of goods, would form a compact southwestern system worth half a billion dollars. Mr. Loree, Chairman of both the K. C. Southern and the "Katie" would be enabled to save vast sums in operating costs and in financing. But, were the roads merged, they would lose their apparent and precious competitive aspect. That would be against the public interest and warranted, with other factors, disapproval...