Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight new Republicans, six at least will surely be "regular"-Delaware's Townsend, Maryland's Goldsborough, Rhode Island's Herbert, New Jersey's Kean, Connecticut's Walcott and Glenn of Illinois. Perhaps West Virginia's Hatfield will show a streak of independence. Hatfield used to be a fighting name in the Border States and Henry D. Hatfield has known the authority of a Governorship...
...with the discriminating fighting men of the St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne & Chateau Thierry offensives. Because he pursued famed Rebel Aguinaldo (1899-1901), he knows well the swamps and morasses of the Philippines. But, above all, he is the ardently romantic alumnus of the sheer grey towers of West Point. He has written five novels of life at the Military Academy...
...DECLINE OF THE WEST...
...first volume of the decline of the west considered the development of civilization through the media of philosophy, art, mathematics and physics. The second volume considers its development in the different forms of religion, law, politics, economics, language, race, cults and classes. Fear love and faith are all taken into account in this analysis of the world and of the human soul...
...technique in handling campaign trends was to ballyhoo a Hoover landslide: for example, "Smith to be Most Badly Defeated Candidate Ever Running for Presidency." Then there was standard stuff: "Drunk Negro Boosting Smith," "Kissing Pope's Ring Insult to Flag," "Tirades on Religion and Liquor by Smith in West Turn Voters in Disgust." But, here and there, The Fellowship Forum would say something nice; one week, on the Women's Page, was a glowing sketch of Mrs. Herbert Hoover. One of the owners of The Fellowship Forum was aboard the Hoover special train on the Tennessee trip. Another...