Word: western
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publisher Copley admitted that he was once president and director of Western United Corp., now Insullated, but that he had resigned, sold his interests to buy newspapers at about the same time Mr. Insull acquired large holdings in Western United. He said: "I have no securities whatever in public utilities. There is not a dollar of utility money invested in my newspapers." He did say he still holds 12.500 shares of Western United in trust for his wife, his sister and one W. W. Tracy of Springfield...
...start at Old Orchard was June 13, a fair day with western winds all the way across the Atlantic. On the long, white, hard beach were the Yellow Bird and the Green Flash, a Bellanca monoplane with Wright Whirlwind motor which Roger Q. Williams and Lewis E. Yancey planned to fly to Rome. The Yellow Bird was going to Paris. The two planes warmed up simultaneously. The Yellow Bird took off first, her tail drooping unusually. The Green Flash in starting crumpled a wheel and wrecked itself...
...current trunk-line proposition involves the Wabash (controlled by the Pennsylvania), the Western Maryland, the Pittsburgh & West Virginia (Taplin property) and the Wheeling & Lake Erie (disputed between Taplins and Van Sweringens). The Wabash and the Western Maryland are units in the B. & O.'s merger plan now before the Interstate Commerce Commission...
Serge Koussevitzky: Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who brings to us from Russia and Western Europe the treasures of good music...
...Bill Hart, famed for his narrow eyes, long upper lip, big hat, quit making western pictures three years ago. Some people said he was writing his autobiography, others that quarrels with his wife had broken his heart. He lived on a ranch somewhere and was only seen in Los Angeles one afternoon when he went to the funeral of a cowboy friend of his. Last week he signed with Hal Roach to make an all-talking horse-and-pistol picture...