Word: western
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coen to ensure next year's contest being on American soil will be uncertain for many weeks yet, but for a year at any rate France has the honors. Indeed, for most of the summer the attention of the sporting world will be focused on Europe and the Western Hemisphere will be decidedly in the background until the autumn brings the World Series and football. Amsterdam will be the center of interest as the focus of the Olympic games, but wanderers in Europe have been running across extra events going on almost anywhere for the past six months...
...thrills of the contest will be as strong as ever, the tourist army will have a new objective for its interest, and the defeated competitors can look forward to the joy that will be theirs when for the first time they compete chez the great playboy of the Western World--Los Angeles...
...seating arrangement is tactical, not alphabetical. This year, Maine's delegation is front-and-centre. Front right (facing the rostrum) is California; front left, Pennsylvania. Behind California will sit a string of western delegations. Behind Maine are the other New England States, then New York. Behind Pennsylvania come Ohio and other Midwesterners. Southerners are relegated to the rear...
Aerial news is now the breakfast stimulant of a nation. With four men blazing a path across the Western ocean and two triangular parties fighting for fame and vaudeville fortune in a race, no less, over the wearied airways of the Atlantic, the future of the featurists seems assured...
Full Week. Customers of New York Stock Exchange houses, particularly those trying to trade from the Pacific Coast, clamored against the recent five-day trading weeks and last week's four-hour trading days. The Western traders, being hours away from Manhattan, lost precious time for making, and losing, money. Manhattan operators lost commissions. That was one factor that induced the Exchange to resume full day & week trading. Another was that trading last week was lighter than in a very long time. And another factor was that Wall Street bookkeepers had in a measure caught up with their...