Word: montana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...setting thus described by him to the Senate, grim-visaged Senator Thomas J. Walsh has a bower, a summer-home on the northeastern end of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, Montana. He owns two-thirds of an acre with a 150-foot lake frontage, purchased from the holder of the original land patent before the park was created in 1910. Last week the grey Walsh mustache bristled more ferociously than ever as he did legislative battle in defense of his summer hearthstone and of a governmental principle...
...afternoons, a poet says, have been in Montana, and few of them hotter than July 4, 1923. That day, the sun poured down without mercy on the little cow town of Shelby, where, in a damp prizefight ring, glistened and heaved the ruddy shoulders of Tommy Gibbons, a husky boy who wanted to be champion of the world. Jack Dempsey, the champion, was punching and slashing at Tommy Gibbons. Sweat glistened on the faces of the shirt-sleeved crowd. One man fainted. It was the heat. Another man suddenly had a bleeding nose. Tommy Gibbons felt weak and sick after...
Anaconda originated and centres in Montana, owning more than 3,300 acres of copper mines in and around Butte. It has recently received much publicity through litigation with W. A. Clark over title to various Montana copper properties (TIME, Sept. 3). Anaconda also has large foreign properties, notably the Chile Copper Co., acquired in 1923 from the Guggenheims and said to possess the largest copper deposit in the world; the Andes Copper Mining Co., also in Chile, and extensive zinc and lead holdings in Poland and Silesia. An extremely important Anaconda subsidiary is the American Brass Co., the world...
...previous Nobel prize men are "duly qualified" for recommending. And off to Oslo went the prayer of, besides Mr. Dawes, the following: Speaker Longworth, Senators Shipstead and Schall and Representative Newton of Minnesota (the Kellogg State); Senators Burton (oldtime peace man) and Fess of Ohio, Senator Walsh of Montana...
...unbreakable. He started them in the mining business with a smelter in Colorado. They prospered, engaged the best brains in the mining business, gained control of vast copper mining properties which produced two-fifths of the world's copper supply. When they sold control of Chile Copper to Montana's Anaconda, in 1923, their Chilean investments alone were estimated...