Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Santa Claus." He rose to his present position of vice chairman of the national executive committee via the New York Legislature, where he and the Nominee worked together as young men. Big-framed, self-confident, breezy, generous. 50 years old but much younger in looks, he reflects his Western upbringing more clearly than his New York nativity. His Tammany connection has not overshadowed his reputation as a humanitarian, a framer of public school legislation, a philanthropist whose chief work is the Boys Club Federation, of which he is the national president. He educated himself at night school, after...
...catch is the phrase "allegiance to the Crown." It recently enabled Governor Sir William Robert Campion of Western Australia to refuse (as His Majesty's representative) to sign a certain money bill passed by the Legislature of Western Australia. Sir William has admitted that he was "guided" by the intimations of the British Government, although technically he was acting only for the Crown. Thus "allegiance to the Crown" is a suave phrase under which the Dominions are left apparently free but actually subject to slight curbs from the Prime Minister and Parliament of Great Britain...
...three speakers: Dr. John Lovejoy Elliott and Alfred W. Martin both of New York, and Professor Kirsopp Lake of Harvard. Questions for them are "To what purpose is our material progress? How much and where are our moral and spiritual progress? How can we present the machines of western civilization being the masters...
...only universities in the country beside those mentioned above, that sponsor Naval Reserve units are the University of Washington and the University of California. These two western colleges took their June cruise along the Paciflc seaboard aboard the battleship Pennsylvania, sailing as far south as Victoria...
...Midwest with their 149 electoral votes are to the G. O. P. what the eleven States of the South, with 124 electors, are to the Democracy. They are the cornerstone, the bulwark, among which "bolts" and "splits" and outright transitions occur far less frequently than among the eleven Western States, the eleven Eastern States, the four Border States...