Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bloc of faithful votes. Tom Pendergast has long been the No. 1 Democrat of his State. But in 1932 St. Louis' Bennett Champ Clark went to the Senate without his help and Boss Pendergast has since had to sign a working agreement to claim patronage only in the western half of the State. The truce has lately been strained, to the dis pleasure of Tom Pendergast. First strain came when young Maurice Milligan, whose Brother Jacob was defeated by Pendergast's Harry Truman for the Senate, was appointed U. S. Attorney for the western district of Missouri with...
...instance of a number of crackpots, speculators, inflationists, amateur economists and the Senators from six Western States, the U. S. embarked upon a silver-buying program. To date the most conspicuous result of the Administration's silver policy is that the Treasury in a little more than four years has purchased about 1400,000,000 oz. of a metal whose prime characteristic is its futility. And much of it was purchased at prices considerably above last week's quotation of 44¾ per oz., which is an entirely artificial figure since the U. S. has been buying most...
...have been able to speak with many workers who still remember and liked work in the old Russia. They remember it still as a hazy mirage because their salaries then guaranteed them sufficient food and the possibility of clothing themselves decently. ... I lived in 1937 and 1938 in western European countries, and therefore I am able to render a clear, exact account of the depth to which the fall of contemporary Russia has gone...
...Last week Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. abandoned until summer search for its plane, lost near Fresno March 1 with nine aboard. Said Mrs. Jay Dirlam, whose son and daughter, Tracy and Mary Lou, were aboard the lost plane rushing south to their dying father's bedside: "I am convinced the disappearance of the plane was one of those unavoidable accidents. The plane was of the best and the pilots were among the best. Under the same circumstances I would still advise my children to take a plane...
...date when the first bell chimed is lost in Oriental antiquity, but most authorities agree that bells, as distinguished from gongs, cymbals and tinklers, were unknown in the Western world until Roman churches began using them in the 5th century, A. D. In the Spear collection are bells from the period when the first European bells were cast instead of being made from metal plates. Others: fragile bells of Venetian glass, Italian Renaissance bells of bronze, children's play bells from 17th-Century Spain, Austrian bells of chased silver, a Chinese porcelain bell of the Sung dynasty. One tiny...