Word: westing
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...President forwarded to the Senate, for confirmation, a long list of officers appointed during the Congressional recess. Sent separately was a name most likely to be frowned on by the Senate-Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West (see The Cabinet, "West Case"). The list, fairly certain to be approved in toto, included Utah's J. Reuben Clark, Under Secretary of State; Tennessee's H. Theodore Tate, Treasurer of the U. S.; Ohio's John W. Pole to be Comptroller of Currency; William S. Culbertson of Kansas, Ambassador to Chile; also five Ministers, a Farm Loan Board...
Publicity is a prime requisite of any Goodwill trip. When the Hoover-bearing battleship Maryland passed down South America's west coast, it was found that the high Andes were an obstacle to telling the world by ship's radio what the traveller was saying and doing. The Navy Department therefore obligingly ordered the cruiser Rochester to steam westward from Panama to the vicinity of Galapagos and thence relay the Maryland's rebounding messages to the big naval radio station at Balboa.* Notwithstanding this assistance, the Maryland found Andean ether conditions so bad that no messages could...
...long he met one of the bright young men who had been associated down East with Thomas Edison in his electric-lighting companies. This young man, a short, brisk little Britisher named Samuel Insull, organized a Chicago Edison Company. The lawyer from Vermilion County, whose name was Roy Owen West, became Mr. Insull's attorney and put some money into the company. When Mr. Insull later organized a Middle West Utilities Company, Mr. West invested in that too. So did his wife and mother. All prospered...
...iconographic collection recently presented to Harvard contains a good deal of material hitherto entirely unknown in the West, and we hope that it will be used to good advantage by those members of this University who are interested in the civilization of Eastern Asia...
...schedules released yesterday follow: POLO University Feb. 9 Army at West Point. Feb. 16 Yale. Feb. 22 Cleveland at Cleveland. Feb. 23 Cincinnati at Cincinnati. Freshman Feb. 9 Yale at New Haven...