Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Evans Hughes began a sustained Republican effort in Missouri. There are 18 electoral votes in Missouri. The usual complexion of the State is: Republican in and about wet, German-populated St. Louis; Democratic in the dry, farming western reaches. This year, the wet German-Americans, led by oldtime-brewer August Adolph Busch, have inclined sharply to Smith. Farm unrest impeded a compensating swing to Hoover in the west. To St. Joseph, on the extreme western edge of Missouri, went Campaigner Hughes to praise the Hoover record, to admit that "the Republican Party was betrayed in its own house...
...There was an unusually good wheat harvest this year in the Western states and as that always has the effect of making the people satisfied with the existing regime, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma will doubtless vote pretty solidly for Hoover. The far West will go all Hoover, and the far South will probably stay Democratic...
...acknowledge Nominee Smith's presence in the campaign, Nominee Curtis made amends. He referred to "the dear Governor" and to "the gentleman from New York who thinks he is running for President on the Democratic ticket." The further Curtis itinerary lay through Connecticut, Massachusetts, upper New York, western Pennsylvania, into Ohio...
...island's spine. Also, because the Hudson's bank is the island's natural dock and shipping side. Wharves, warehouses and railroad tracks thrived there and stretched up the island before society or even social convenience made competitive demands. The commercial coagulation on Manhattan's western bank is no stranger than Cleveland's hideous, eastern waterfront, Cincinnati's and Pittsburgh's smoke-draggled riverbanks or Chicago's fuliginous south shore...
...skirting Lincoln Park on the lakeside and a riverside boulevard (Wacker Drive) around scow-ridden reaches of the Chicago River. And last week New York City's Board of Estimate finally approved plans for a driveway, which will ameliorate land values as well as living standards, up the western shore of Manhattan Island from Canal Street to 59th Street. A linking boulevard from 59th Street to 72nd Street, where Riverside Drive begins, had already been approved. Construction of the whole was authorized to begin with the New Year and promised in completion for July...