Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company on the Mesaba. Mr. Mitchell, president of U. S. Steel Corp.'s potent subsidiary, Oliver Iron Mining Co., doubtless referred to the fact that a rich part of the Mesaba used to belong to the Federal-Government, before iron was discovered there. It was traded to the State of Minnesota and now is operated by U. S. Steel Corp. on a royalty basis. Township taxes on the mining properties have made Hibbing one of the richest communities in the land. The miners who live there pay a nominal price for the heat that is piped to their shacks...
...Richard C. Callen, U. S. Marshal in Denver, Colo., went, a special warrant signed by President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg for the arrest and extradition from France of Henry M. Blackmer, fugitive from justice. Mr. Blackmer was a partner of Oilman Harry F. Sinclair in the Continental Trading Co., of Teapot Dome ill-fame. After banking his $736,000 share of profits, he fled the country when the Continental Trading Co. was investigated by the U. S. He refused to return to testify. Tax liens and penalties of $8,498,935.78 were piled up against...
...Canterbury in English history. Augustine (597-605) established Christianity in England. Bertha, queen of the fourth Saxon king of Kent, Aethelbert, was already a Christian and gave Augustine a church at Canterbury, then a seaport. Thomas Becket (1162-70), warrior-bishop, first helped Henry II subordinate Church to State. But when he became Archbishop of Canterbury he fought for Church against State. Courtiers foully murdered and mangled him on the very steps of his altar and Henry II did an abject penance. Stephen Langton (1207-22) persuaded Pope Innocent III to excommunicate King John for combating Church administration; he stirred...
...upon to read a curious document. It was a report, made by onetime Harvard professor Raymond Buell, submitted to the League by Henri A. Junod, President of the International Society for the Protection of Natives. Declared Professor Buell, in effect: "Firestone forced its way into Liberia. The U. S. State Department and Herbert Hoover brought pressure to bear to make the Liberian government accept the refinancing operations and admit Firestone rubber. Eventually, the lands of the natives will be confiscated. Through the terms of the loan, through U. S. financial advisers, a closed door has been established. It will...
...come. In the South, Clay Wingate, gentleman planter, gloated with boyish pride over boots and sabre, crisp new toys of war; but he brooded over their necessity. He knew the cause wasn't slavery, "that stale red-herring of Yankee knavery"; he knew it wasn't even states' rights. Vaguely he sensed it was a conflicting temperament, a difference in culture, North and South: A voice, a fragrance, a taste of wine, A face half-seen with candleshine, A yellow river, a blowing dust. . . . In the North, Jack Ellyat pitied the fugitive slave, "a black man with...