Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only 1,200 votes in the Harding landslide. Two years later Kvale as a Farmer-Laborite opposed Volstead again. In that campaign Mr. Volstead was known as a disinterested Dry, Mr. Kvale as a red-hot Dry. Kvale won, by 14,000 votes. Volstead became legal adviser of the Northwest Prohibition District...
Doukhobor protests have been frequent in the Northwest this summer. Last week 103 "Dukes" and "Duchesses" had to be sentenced to six months at hard penal labor for parading at Nelson, B. C. At Canora, Sask., 60 more were incarcerated...
Canadian-U. S. Route. To form a segment in a proposed transport system across southern Canada and northern U. S., R. C. Lilly and other St. Paul-Minneapolis businessmen last week bought control of Northwest Airways (Chicago to St. Paul-Minneapolis line). Canadian planes will cross into the U. S. at Detroit, fly by way of Chicago and St. Paul-Minneapolis to Winnipeg, thence westward to Vancouver...
...page 57 of your issue of Sept. 2 you make reference to "Northwest Bank Corp." Correct corporate name is Northwest Bancorporation...
...will try to have the law modified to permit branch banking throughout the country. If they succeed, it is certain that some of the chains now being created will be converted into branch banking systems. But whether chains or branches eventually come out on top, the developments in the Northwest last week show clearly the tendency of modern banking not only to step outside of municipal boundaries, but to cross state lines. That was where last week's wind was blowing...