Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political observers maintain that motives political as well as personal have dictated the President's proposed Western excursion. In 1870 a torchlight procession smoked down Pennsylvania Avenue, besought President Grant to have built a permanent Western White House somewhere west of the Mississippi. At the last session of Congress, Representative Dickinson of Iowa resurrected the proposal. Official Washington, including the President, is said to frown on the Western White House idea as needlessly expensive...
Coolidge. At No. 15 Dupont Circle, President Coolidge, Republican National Committee Chairman William M. Butler, and ten potent Republicans* breakfasted on grapefruit, bacon, eggs, sausage, hot cakes. They then listened to Chairman Butler's report on his just completed Western tour...
...unusual expedition, one in which birds of the northern regions of the western hemisphere will be studied, will be led into Labrador regions this summer by O. L. Austin Jr., 1G, a graduate student in Biology in the University. The expedition, to leave New Rochelle, New York, on June 18, will spend three months on the east coast of Labrador, returning to the United States early in October...
Beneath a benevolent sun, 2,796 mid-western running-jumping-hurling youths held a relay carnival at the Drake Stadium, Des Moines, Iowa, last week. On the average, their performances were better than those at the Penn Carnival. Iowa State captured the medley and the two-mile relays, and the University of Iowa won the 440-yard and the one-mile relays. No decathlon was attempted...
...Golf Association declared that it was " detrimental to the best interests and true spirit of the game" to allow Mary K. Browne, tennis professional, able golfer, to participate in its amateur golf tournaments. But, as sport writers were quick to point out, Miss Browne can still play in the Western amateur championship or in any other women's district tourneys not under the U.S.G.A. Also, the door is open to her to be reinstated in the U.S.G.A. "after three years of good conduct...