Word: western
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subsequent aids "to the process of forgetting Mr. Bowers." The New York World apologized: "Certainly one thing may be said. ... It was . . . scorching. . . . Mr. Bowers had no ordinary task. . . . He faced a special problem. . . ." Tolerance. During the Bowers bow-wow there was a well-organized "demonstration" by delegates from Western states when "the hand of privilege" was pictured throttling the farmer and picking his pockets. At the close of Permanent Chairman Robinson's address a more spontaneous outburst was touched off by these words: "Jefferson gloried in the Virginia statute of religious freedom. He rejoiced in the provision...
Should Smith fail to get 43 votes among the Urban States, he still could win. There are four Western States with Democratic leanings. They are: Arizona, 3; Montana, 4; South Dakota, 5; Colorado, 6; totalling...
...this apparently innocent extension, magnates saw pregnant and disquieting possibilities. At Connellsville, the P. and W. Va. branch will connect with the Western Maryland road, forming what may develop into a new through route from Lake Erie and the steel producing country to Baltimore, via the Wheeling and Lake Erie and possibly the Wabash. All eyes were focused on a Cleveland coal producer,* owner of the P. and W. Va., 45% stockholder in the W. and L. E. Was Frank E. Taplin to be the successor of Leonor Fresnel Loree, reviving the carefully laid bogey of a fifth trunk line...
...Stay East, young man," counselled potent Meatpacker F. Edson White, president of Armour and Co., principal speaker at the Omaha convention of the National Live Stock and Meat Board. Middle Western farmers, declared Meatpacker White, should discourage "back-to-the-farm" propaganda, should hope for fewer farmers, higher prices. Confounding calamity howlers, he compared yearly incomes of farmers in the Middle West with the national average. His comparison: Nebraska $4,010; South Dakota, $3,356; Iowa, $4,180; Kansas, $3,020; U. S. average...
...Cleveland's Proud Record with Music" was a headline in a New York newspaper when Nikolai Grigorovitch Sokoloff, conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, received two honorary degrees-one from Western Reserve University, one from Capital University (Columbus, Ohio...