Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...felt that TIME was, as usual, justified in considering it of national interest when a western boy received lenient punishment at the hands of an eastern Judge for no apparent reason other than the youth's affiliations...
...called Mellon Machine did not take form in western Pennsylvania until after the death of Boies Penrose in 1921, and when it did, Andrew William Mellon was its motive power, not its engineer. Outside of Pennsylvania, Mr. Mellon was politically unheard-of in 1920, when President Harding, at the suggestion of the late Philander Chase Knox, asked him to take over the national treasury, then 24 billions in debt...
...coal; this he disliked, so a few years later he was bound out to a farmer. Bill Haywood ran away from the farm, did some prospecting, became a Socialist. In 1899, when the Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, striking began, he was chairman of the executive committee of the Western Federation of Miners. Seven years later he was the defendant in a trial that made his name famous in the U. S. as it increased the fame of Clarence S. Darrow, who defended him, and that of a local Idaho politician, William Edgar Borah who prosecuted...
...Newcomb Carlton is president of Western Union Telegraph Co. (Total assets...
...been said, and so often and so insistently that it has become platitudinous, that the present age is an age of questions. As in all platitudes there is at least a foundation of truth in this remark. The scientific spirit which has pervaded the western world for the last century and more with its tireless exploration of the unknown has become the basic element in modern intellectual life...