Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Public Utilities. The Pacific Gas & Electric Co. sent letters to stockholders of the Coast Valleys Gas & Electric Co., the Western States Gas & Electric Co. of California and the Western States Gas & Electric Co. of Delaware announcing that it had bought control of those companies and intended to merge them. Recipients of the letters might trade their stocks for stock in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. or might sell them...
Many important discoveries are shown in the report of the Archaeological Expedition sent by the department of Anthropology to south western New Mexico to excavate the ruins of a recently discovered Indian village in the Mimbres Valley. The expedition, conducted by Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Cosgroves, found in the ruins of the village one of the best collections of Indian pottery that has ever been unearthed in that region. Although the party was unable to determine definnitely what type of Indians inhabited the village, the ruins of the house, the bones, pottery, and stone implements indicate that the dwellers...
...James Augustine Farrell, President of U. S. Steel, and many another almost as potent. With solemnity Cardinal Hayes was inducted as the head of a new chapter in the order, to be known as the Knights of Malta in the United States, the first chapter in the Western Hemisphere. His Eminence was also notified that he had received the Grand Cross of Honor, highest rank of the order...
...bumped in the head by a potato; rotten eggs squashed stickily against the scenery. Fists flew in the audience; police swooped down in platoons, and the performance proceeded to a dishevelled but triumphant curtain. Horrified Irish residents had precipitated the fuss, irate because Synge's Playboy of the Western World, cast doubts upon the purity of an Irish girl. That the play was presented by their own Irish players, specially imported from Dublin, was no sedative...
...other Eastern colleges, though lending a polite ear, also declined to commit themselves. It has thus remained for the pioneer West to assume the burden of reform. Michigan, press reports state, will put the system into effect only gradually, and is evidently receiving little encouragement from the other Western colleges...