Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Provinces: Quebec, Manitoba, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon, Northwest Territories...
...Washington by the northwest, you will pass the Chevy Chase Country Club. There is a links. It was somewhere near the eleventh or twelfth hole?accounts vary?somewhere near one of these holes, on a pleasant June day, that a foursome was in progress. Part of it was on the fair green and part of it was in the foul. The part on the fair green consisted of Senators Joseph T. Robinson and Andrieus A. Jones. The part in the foul was Senators Thomas J. Walsh and John B. Kendrick. These latter had lost, or had failed to discover, their...
Wrangel Island, 400 miles northwest of Bering Strait, is a forbidding mass of naked granite rock (35x70 miles), rising more than 2,000 ft. out of the Arctic Ocean. A dreary and blizzard-swept place, of tragic memory, it is nevertheless popular because of its possible usefulness as a base for future Arctic exploration...
Cotton is so high that even Democrats can find nothing there to quarrel about. Wheat's recent rise is cementing the Republican hold on the Northwest farmers, and dooming third-party and Democratic efforts in that region. The rise in wheat has not been due to mere manipulation. Some months ago Stock Operator Livermore remarked frequently upon its strong "statistical position." So far, there is an estimated world shortage of 300 million bushels in the 1924 wheat crop, 200 million of it in this country. Meanwhile consumption of wheat all over the world has exceeded expectations. European buying...
...entire Nation. The Democratic Party destroyed the balance between Agriculture, Industry and Labor. The Republican Administration gave the situation more serious consideration than it has ever received. Laws have been passed to help. The President secured the formation of a private corporation, with $100,000,000, to assist the Northwest. The revival of the War Finance Corporation, which loaned over $300,000,000, saved agriculture from complete collapse. Intermediate credit banks were established; capitalization of Farm Loan system increased ; emergency loans made to drought-stricken areas; cooperative marketing begun; grain futures and packer-control laws were enacted; farmers given representation...