Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marching in the Young Turks' ranks were Allen of Kansas, Glenn of Illinois, Goldsborough of Maryland, Hastings of Delaware, Hatfield of West Virginia, Hebert of Rhode Island, Kean of New Jersey, McCulloch of Ohio, Patterson of Missouri, Townsend of Delaware, Walcott of Connecticut. From the Old Guard they had recruited Deneen of Illinois, Fess of Ohio, Goff of West Virginia, McNary of Oregon, Oddie of Nevada et al. There was even talk of unhorsing Old Guardsman Watson as Republican Leader and putting Senator McNary into his place...
...year and a half the Pavlowa company trekked down the East Coast of South America, across the Andes, up the West Coast to Panama, thence to Cuba, Mexico. When she returned to the U. S., Ruth was given the leading role in John Alden Carpenter's ballet, The Birthday of the Infanta, presented by the Chicago Civic Opera Company, later in Manhattan and other U. S. cities. Engagements and prestige came fast. She was premiére danseuse of the Bolm Ballet Intime, of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue; she danced with the Chicago Allied Arts productions in Chicago...
Journalistic Homers have sung for years the deeds of the Eastern trunk lines in their unceasing consolidation battles. Last week they smote a new chord on their lyres, began a new canto of the railroad epic. They turned to the West and the great Western railroads. In San Francisco last week sat Charles D. Mahaffie, Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Before him came Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern, Paul Shoup, President of the Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these...
...West: Southern California v. Washington State at Los Angeles...
...incite soldiers on both sides to deeds of astonishing gallantry. There were, indeed, four phases of the dime novel and its follower, the Nickel Library: 1) innocent stories of the American Revolution and early Indian warfare in the East; 2) similar tales of the great plains and the pioneer West; 3) strenuous stories of New York detectives such as Old Cap Collier and Old Sleuth, of cosmopolitan boys like Jack Harkaway, or rovers like Deadwood Dick; 4) respectable stories of righteous messenger boys, of Nick Carter, Diamond Dick, Jesse James and Yale's hyper-athlete Frank Merriwell...