Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political campaigns at Harvard will culminate on election evening when the Debating Union will hold open house until late the following morning for Union members. A special wire from the Western Union will be run into the Living Room and the most complete election returns available anywhere throughout the country will be read from the Living Room platform. The announcements will be spiced by, Neal O'Hara if his presence can be secured. Two years ago at the Massachusetts gubernatorial election Neal O'Hara presided to the enjoyment of the members for nearly two hours...
...Whatever goes on in the world there always seems to be a Negro there. When Columbus discovered America a Negro piloted one of his ships. Almost every early history of the western hemisphere tells of some part taken by Negroes. As early as 1645 there were free Negroes in New York, and it is common knowledge that the first Negroes in Virginia arrived in 1619, but a few years after the white colonists at Jamestown. In the French and Indian Wars, black men did their bit, and a Negro was first to fall in the War for Independence. They were...
...Symphony Orchestra would sound queer to the inhabitants of the far places. Yet oriental music did not sound ugly to Leopold Stokowski, famed insurgent conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony. In fact during a recent and extensive tour of the Far East he stood "literally hypnotized ... by music such as western ears had never heard, wildly discordant but with overtones of grandeur." Always eager to shock the music-lovers of Philadelphia, Leopold Stokowski swore that he would carry these aboriginal harmonies home with him to Pennsylvania...
Last week when he arrived, alert music-listeners were in a stew of excitement. They longed to see Stokowski and to ask him to play for them the wild notes of songs which western ears had never heard before. "What have you brought us?" they cried; whereupon Leopold Stokowski showed them three Javanese gongs, sacred objects which made a pleasant noise when struck. These he said he had wheedled from the Sultan of Java...
...Chicago by the Continental National Bank & Trust Co. and the Illinois Merchants Trust Co. (see p. 38); the Commercial Investment Trust Corps' purchase of Peierls, Buhler & Co. (see p. 43), and the consolidation of two rough rolled glass makers-Highland Glass Co. at Washington, Pa., and the Western Glass Co. at Streator, Ill., Shirley, Ind., and Fullerton, Calif.-as the Highland-Western Glass Co., with $5,000,000 capital. The men who control both the United Light and Power Co. and the American Light and Traction Co., were indifferent as to which company would buy technical control...