Word: southwesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Southwest from Washington traveled Vice President Charles Gates Dawes. He departed for Cimarron, N. Mex., where Waite Phillips, Tulsa, (Okla.) oilman has a 150,000-acre ranch. Vacationing later than the President, the Vice President had opportunity to acquaint himself with the beauties of many western portions of the U. S. as evidenced by the various resolutions which state legislatures passed when the site of the President's summer capital was still under debate. Possibly the Vice President's eyes chanced to focus themselves on the resolution passed by the New Mexican legislators-a powerful presentation...
...intercollegiate tennis singles matches at the Merion Cricket Club in Haverford, Pa., last week, were not up to snuff, but the championship went to the Southwest for the first time in the 42 years' history of the tournament.* Wilmer Allison, 22, of the University of Texas, ran Ben Gorchakoff of Occidental College (Los Angeles) off the court in 39 minutes in the finals. Score...
...imaginary line between the earth and the sun at a point close enough to the earth, so that the sun was blotted from the sight of earth-dwellers. The moon's shadow, an oval patch of twilight some 40 miles wide, fell first on the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Ireland, sweeping across Liverpool and Hartlepool to the North Sea, across Scandinavia and Siberia, disappearing over the Aleutian Islands off Alaska...
...Horace Percy Silver, in 1912, was nominated bishop coadjutor of Kansas for his powerful pastorates at Omaha and Lincoln, Neb., and his missionary work in the southwest. But because he was divorced, only 48 of the 98 Protestant Episcopal bishops voted for him to join their body. He withdrew his candidacy...
...Fine Arts in the University, under whose guidance the old Fogg Art Museum Building, the gift of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg of New York as a memorial to her husband, was erected, an era of rapid advancement has culminated in the construction of the new Fogg Museum on the southwest corner of Quincy Street. Directly the new Fogg Museum is a result of the $2,000,000 raised in 1924 to build a new Museum and to provide for it an endowment...