Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Skirting the southern end of the island, typhoon and tidal wave broke on the western shore, carrying great boats high into the air and dashing them onto inland rice fields in the vicinity of Nagasaki. The towns of Nakamura and Kojima were wrecked. Jetties, heavy laden barges, motor boats were crushed by the terrific weight of water or blown away by the screeching wind...
...political economists care, and of all political economists, none cares more intensely than Dr. Augustus Raymond Hatton of Cleveland. Dr. Hatton has taught poli- tical science at Western Reserve University since 1907, has served on Cleveland's city council since 1924. When he announced last week that he was leaving Cleveland, the reason was his deep interest in good city government...
...Mayor Thompson wants the West to know that his championship will go to the man who, red-blooded and foursquare, stands upon such a platform as candidate for the Presidency of the U. S. Some one of these planks, indeed, must lie close to the heart of practically every Western voter. But no one candidate has yet appeared to champion all four-except Mayor Thompson. From this circumstance some saw in his crusade a flourish preliminary to tossing the Thomp- son hat into the presidential ring. Despite President Coolidge's adamant refusal to call a special session of Congress...
With Bobby Jones safely in the South, potent golfers played for the Western Open Championship. Walter Hagen scored an early 67, breaking the course record over the Olympia fields No. 1 course, Chicago, by 2 strokes, par by 5. Laurie Ayton of Evanston had one phenomenal nine of 32. Hagen was steadiest; with a 75 on his last round he scored 281, a fraction over even 70's for four rounds; won the title by 4 strokes...
...California corporation, not to be confused with Federal Telegraph Co., a Delaware corporation, which Radio Corporation of America owns. The Delaware Federal Telegraph has valuable communi- cation rights in China. †Western Union has 22,000 main offices, Postal Telegraph 3,000 main offices...