Word: midwest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reed. Candidate Reed stumped into California just in time to hear the Walsh boom begin. He had come, after a week in his own Midwest, from the wide Southwest, including Phoenix and Albuquerque. In the latter city, he had flayed New Mexico's defamed and pining Albert Bacon Fall and New Mexico's brusque, new, young figure, Senator Bronson Murray Cutting. His ire at Senator Cutting was aroused by the latter's voting to seat Senator-suspect Smith of Illinois. In the midst of a tirade, he was cut short by a heckler, Editor E. Dana Johnson...
...Harry M. Blackmer, board chairman of the Midwest Refining Co. (subsidiary of Standard of Indiana). Mr. Blackmer skipped the country, too, and has repeatedly refused to return and testify. His share of the Continental profits were located last week in a Manhattan safety deposit box. His son, Myron K. Blackmer, testified that Harry M. Blackmer will not soon return to the U. S. from Paris. "He told me he liked it there," said Son Blackmer...
...Smith. The second Col. Theodore Roosevelt lately toured the Midwest, minus his dinnercoat, frothing with expletives, trying to discredit Candidate Smith and Tammany Hall as vicious, grafting plug-uglies. Mayor James J. Walker of New York City,* with 36 pairs of spats and a plenitude of evening shirts, morning shirts, afternoon shirts and silk pajamas instead of nightshirts, all most exquisitely cared for by Robert Abel, English valet, last week set out for the Mardi Gras at New Orleans. The theory: the Midwest may think what it has a mind to about Tammany Hall, but what the South thinks...
...looking northward, saw millions of acres of snow that would soon melt and incalculable clouds of rain that would soon fall. Winter had come and spring was not far behind. The peace of the public mind was not promoted during the week by an address to the third annual Midwest Power Conference, in Chicago, by Major-General Edgar Jadwin. As Chief of Engineers for the Army, General Jadwin may be expected to know what he is talking about. Said he, without giving any date: ". . . We now have a responsible forecast of a superflood, greater even than the 1927 flood. This...
...Editor Midwest News Magazine for the Deaf and popularly classified as "deaf and dumb...