Word: southwesterner
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...journeyed from Manhattan to Chicago to face sharp questioning by Congressman Adolph Joseph Sabath's investigating committee, which originally started out to investigate real estate bondholders' reorganizations. From Mr. Milton the committee wanted to know all about the acquisition of General American Life Insurance Co. by Southwestern Life Insurance Co. last spring (TIME, April...
What happened was that three Dallas lawyers put up a little of their own money, borrowed $2,400,000 from Southwestern Life, bought General American from Mr. Milton's Equity Corp., thereby gaining control of Southwestern Life with its own money-since General American controlled Southwestern. Mr. Milton was unable to satisfy the Committee that there had been no pressure applied by Equity Corp. to make Southwestern make the $2,400,000 loan. Equity's profit in the deal was $425,000. Of the excursion of Investment Truster Milton and his associates into General American, old Congressman Sabath...
...main force of the White Army under General Jose Varela was fighting on the bank of the Manzanares River which flows through Madrid's western and southwestern sections. Day after day the besiegers tried in vain to thrust across three of the river's bridges and battle their way into the city. Under a blanket of acrid smoke, White shock troops violently attacked Los Franceses Bridge, failed to enter Madrid only because the Red militia blew up the bridge and captured three White tanks that had wormed their way across the river into the Radical lines...
Discovery of the year was a 28-year-old Spanish-American from Taos, N. Mex. named Patrocino Barela, with an instinctive talent for wood carving. He presented a number of bultos, which are Southwestern religious carvings, each whittled from a single block of wood. To the most ambitious of these, a 14-in. stump of native pine carved into simplified interlocking trees and figures representing the Hope or Four Stages of Man, Whittler Barela appended his own explanation...
...Appendicitis was introduced by another U. S. physician, Reginald Heber Fitz, 40 years later. Alumnus was taken directly from Latin about 1696, and in 1882 Doglover Albert Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed as Spanish in origin, on H. L. Mencken's authority, is the U. S. poker term ante...