Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President transmitted to Congress a message advocating banking relief for the farming regions of the Northwest, and the deficiency budget for the present year as prepared by the Budget Bureau. (See Page 6.) ¶ President Coolidge instructed Secretary of the Navy Denby that no members of the Navy were to take part in boxing exhibitions savoring of commercialism. The Methodist Board of Temperance and Public Morals had protested that a recent exhibition in Manhattan, given for the Navy's athletic fund, "had all the earmarks of a prize fight...
Without warning, while Congressmen were rubbing their hands and shaking in their boots because of the Teapot Dome investigation, they were suddenly confronted by a special message from the President. The message dealt with the farm situation in the Northwest, diagnosing the case and suggesting remedies...
James J. Hill. He had two major ideals: the complete control of the entire Northwest and a final "rule over the immeasurable resources of Oriental commerce." Hill failed in the greatest of his ideals. The realization that there were in the world forces greater than his own, "Napoleon of Railroads" though he was, saddened his old age, left him bent and broken. But he has left a mark on the world and on his country that can never be erased...
...only two others going to the National Convention with pledged delegates. They are Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who is expected to have only a fraction of Pennsylvania's 78 delegates, and Senator La Follette, who will have Wisconsin's delegation and some other votes from the Northwest. But because of Mr. La Follette's ill health and his "insurgency" he is not regarded as a serious contender. On the outskirts will hang several favorite sons, such as ex-Governor Lowden of Illinois, Senator Watson of Indiana and Judge Kenyon of Iowa, eager to step forward...
...nation. Its effect is by no means limited to any given area. It is important to have national leadership in education, but better still to have partial support from national funds. This principle is confirmed by repeated federal enactments, beginning with the act of 1780 establishing the Northwest Territory...