Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the western desert stretches of his own Main Street, Mr. Hoover rested, read books, beamed confidently from the platform. He entered California with the dawn before election. Palo Alto made holiday. To throngs he said, and repeated that evening over the radio: "This enormously enlarged interest is evidence of the great depth of conviction and even anxiety of our people. . . . Whatever the conscience of America determines, that will be right. . . ." Everywhere he made special reference to women. Before noon of election day friends were generally addressing him as "Mr. President...
...will doubtless campaign when he seeks re-election two years hence, but who had to put up with her this year for party reasons. Forgetting her anti-Hoover crusade at Kansas City, she worked as hard for the National ticket as for herself. Blooded stock, intellectual journalists, Far Western spaces and cultivated seclusion are Mrs. McCormick's interests outside of politics...
...Middle Atlantic states sent a delegation of 469 while New England and the Middle Western states mustered 381 and 208 respectively...
...clear the Occidental air of "yellow peril" the distinguished Chinese philosopher, Hu Shih, denies, startlingly, conclusively, that the Western machine-age man controlled, is "materialistic" while the Oriental hand-to-mouth, disease-ridden existence is "spiritual," and therefore potentially superior...
...pictures were loaned by Mr. & Mrs. Cheer Dale of Manhattan. The red-headed Mr. Dale is an investment banker, a member of the Stock Exchange, a director of Western railroads, New Jersey public utilities. During the war he established a Liberty Loan office, sold innumerable bonds. His dynamic existence takes him twice a year to France. He chases over the fairways at St. Cloud, chases to art collectors, buys with zest. With him goes the gracious Mrs. Dale, herself a painter of stage decorations, a writer of cogent art criticism. In three years they have gathered more than 300 modern...