Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young girl when the Civil War came. A hero of the day was a young German named Henry Villard, war correspondent for the New York Tribune. After the war she married him. Chance made him the representative of some bondholders in Western railroads. Brains and force made him president of the Northern Pacific Railroad and a rich...
Meanwhile the British High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, Sir Eyre Hutson, was taking steps to claim Falcon Island again in the name of His Britannic Majesty. As everyone knows, an island or continent becomes "new land" whenever it sinks and rises again, thus necessitating its "rediscovery" and much other pompous, legal procedure...
...Championship. St. Louis plastered his picture all over the town. But Hornsby did not like his next contract with the Cardinals, and was traded to the Giants for "Fordham Frankie" Frisch and Fat James Ring. Last year Hornsby captained the Giants with McGraw ill, managed them on their last western trip, brought them home with a chance for the pennant. This winter, people could not understand why Manager McGraw traded him to Boston. In Boston this spring he succeeded Manager Slattery, did what he could with that slovenly club, but has not succeeded in getting it out of seventh place...
Richfield Oil Co. and Pan-American Western Petroleum, marking the practical retirement of Edward L. Doheny (Elk Hills) from the oil business...
...talkies" are produced on a machine made by the Western Electric Co. William Fox's talkies bear the trade name of Movietone; those of the Warner Brothers are labeled Vitaphone...