Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I have just had the fun of reading your breezy article under the caption "Atavism" (TIME, Jan. 17). As a Western Jackrabbit to an Eastern Jackass may I not congratulate you? The five columns which you so generously devoted to my little home town, are yellower than Hearst at his best. As a matter of fact, you have out-Bonsfilsed Bonsfils-and that is a mighty hard thing to do-in old woman's gossip, and in exaggerated and distorted fact. . . . (DR.) JAMES A. COCHRAN...
...says young Professor Lindsay Rogers of Columbia University, a comparative newcomer among political commentators, in his recent book, The American Senate, wherein he tells why this Senate is the mosf potent upper chamber in the world. ?Old Turkey had given capitulations to Western powers, yielding them their own law courts for their nationals. In 1914 Turkey cast off these capitulations, refuses now to renew them...
...episode has caused much consternation among those who knew her at Urbana, where she had adopted bobbed hair, short skirts, and other marks of the superior western civilization. They find it hard to understand how, after being exposed to the cultural advantages of the Illinois university, she could so far revert to barbarism as to marry a prince of her own race, and what is more, to stay by his side when he is in danger. There are some, however, who admire the Princess for doing so, when she might be living in the luxury of Hollywood, writing...
When he acquired his Western Pacific holdings, Mr. James stated that the investment was "purely personal," meaning that he was not representing his other companies, but only himself. Nevertheless, a still further consolidation of western transportation was not invisible, if the Interstate Commerce Commission should approve Mr. James's present plan. A web connecting west and midwest by north and south is already dominated, and might well be directed, by this financier who, though never a railroad man, can sit in his office and evolve plans "to build up the territory" as readily as he would take a trick...
...service and to offer our plans for the opening ceremonial call, The underground connection having been established we set a definite time on such and such a day for the official inauguration of the latest and grandest achievement of science. The leading thugs and gunmeu of our great middle Western metropolis will congregate at one end of the line and the cream of Cambridge gentlemen robbers will assemble in Arthur's Smoke Shop on the other...