Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The game was noisily underway when Mr. Eugene G. Morehead, accompanied by Mr. Harold Levy, then but recently come South from Down East, drove up. To a young and enthusiastic looking darky who approached, Mr. Morehead asked for the score.
Up in defense of Southern industrialists rose Homer Lenoir Ferguson, president of Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding Co., onetime (1919-20) president of U. S. Chamber of Commerce, employer of 7,000 non-union men, stockholder in four textile mills. Mr. Ferguson's company is one of the South'...
. . . The condition of the Southern cotton mill worker is very much better than it was a generation ago when he had no work at all. . . . When they talk about $12 a week, they do not tell you about the free homes, the good country food, water and light for nothing...
In 1832 the U. S. made a treaty with the Seminole Indians* whereby they ceded their Florida lands to the U. S., promised to move to what is now Arkansas. They failed to move. The Seminole War (1835-42), fiercest of Indian struggles, followed. Defeated, the Seminoles fled, some to...
In the morning the "49ers" were assembled at 8 o'clock in the storage battery room at the plant, and after a slight delay caused by New Englanders "Maine" and "Vermont" oversleeping, the papers were passed out. The hush that marked the first glance at the examination was gradually broken...