Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...locale of this absolutely fresh, vigorous and entertaining story of cowboys and Indians in the Southwest of the 1880's. Far from being of purely juvenile interest it has an historical value all the more welcome because of the authentic perspective it furnishes of the lives of our western forefathers, and the vast movements of humanity from east to west following the Civil War. Those who cherish memories of the true West and are surfeited with the false and discordant atmosphere shed by cheap novels and moving pictures will find refreshment, instruction, and entertainment in Mr. Collins' attractively illustrated work...
...President Coolidge appointed an emergency board-as provided for in the Watson-Parker (1926) railway labor law-to investigate the longstanding wage dispute between 47 western railroads and 70,000 railroad employes. The appointees: Lawyer James R. Garfield (Cleveland), Chief Justice Walter P. Stacey of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Professor Davis R. Dewey of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lawyer Chester H. Rowell of Berkeley, Calif., George T. Baker of Davenport, Iowa. Under the law, each investigator receives $100 per day plus expenses. The board must report to the President within 30 days...
...California Deciduous Fruit Case"-90 Western railroads trying to have an I. C. C. rate-reduction on fruit set aside...
...What does it mean for the history of Western nations that China has 400,000,000 inhabitants concentrated in a single State? Coming closer home, what does it mean for the future peace of Europe that Russia has an extremely high birth rate, so much so that despite wars, epidemics, Bolshevism, famine and mass executions its total population reaches almost 150,000,000 souls...
Newark, N.J.'s. airport, built to be the great western terminal of transcontinental air lines opened last week. To land there are the Manhattan-bound mail planes from Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, Montreal. The port has two 700-ft. runways each a half mile long, a postoffice building, radio station, meteorological station besides the usual hangars, administration buildings and machine shop. Eventually an elevated highway without crossings will be constructed towards New York Harbor so that plane mail can be rushed into the city in 33 minutes. The lag now is nearly an hour...