Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge listened attentively to cattlemen who called to urge the extension of co-operative marketing to the cattle industry. Paul E. Martin, president of the Western Stock Marketing Association said that the co-operative plan was "not a radical proposition," as it did not involve federal control of prices. He said that President Coolidge, while not committing himself to Government cattle-aid, appeared "sympathetic." ¶The President informed newspaper correspondents that he saw no need for a special flood session of Congress. The President has issued this information at frequent periods during the past several weeks...
Then, as the tall, stern Senator relaxed, Chang added contemptuously: "Me have always been puzzled why Western men are so foolish about their women...
...tracks, by burrowing under the snow-blockade line of the Continental Divide, replacing 23 miles of 4% grades with six miles of 2% grades; make Denver 44 miles nearer Salt Lake City than via the Union Pacific, 174 miles nearer than via Pueblo on the present Denver & Rio Grande Western route; it will carry motorists under the Divide, on flatcars the year round; carry oil, power and water lines through the Divide in a special eight-foot bore parallel...
...Churches of Christ in America. Each was stopping over in London on his way to Lausanne, Switzerland, where during August they will attend the World Conference on Faith & Order. This conference, which will meet under the presidency of Bishop Charles H. Brent of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Western New York, will try to improve sodality between Christian sects. *Bishop Manning who has come to seem dour and harsh as he has grown pontifical, in London repeated his great sermon castigating "companionate marriages," the term by which he describes ephemeral connubialities wherein contraceptives are used (TIME, July 4). Because...
Divorced. Mrs. Miriam Burns Horn, golfer, trans-Mississippi Women's Champion, onetime (1923) Western Women's Champion; from Joseph F. Horn. She charged desertion and nonsupport...