Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jack Conway's review in Variety, had gauged the substance of the play, appeared with their cohorts and dragged all the female impersonators and the few remaining members of the cast to a nearby jail. This, it was supposed, would end the silly business; but counsel for Mae West secured an injunction which allowed the performance to be given twice more before it was attacked again. The second arrests were more complete; even Author Mae West was indicted for disorderly conduct and the play did not reopen...
...Army, faced with such sturdy Southern Methodists as Baccus, Roach and Watters, found it difficult to proceed, even by forced marches. Cagle, the West Point halfback, dodged through them several times. The final score was 14?13; the Methodists had missed one kick after touchdown...
Power. Charles Augustus Stone, head of Stone & Webster and Blodget (engineers, financiers) last week added a great block to his interstate power structure. He is chairman of the Engineers Public Service Co., a holding company for power manufacturers of the Middle West, Southwest, South and Middle Atlantic States. In the Northwest is the Puget Sound Power & Light Co., which supplies motive power to the Great Northern Railway. Last week Mr. Stone got control of Puget Sound and joined it to his Engineers Public Service Co., whose total assets thereby became...
...began with a rehearsal of Tennes¬see's pioneer times, telling how his great-great- grandfather started West from that region. He rehearsed the industrial prog¬ress of the so-called New South within the seven and one-half years of the pres¬ent Administration, citing increases in crops, automobiles, telephones, life insurrance, etc. etc., and reminding the South that the Commerce Department's southern branch offices had been increased from three in 1920 to 29 now. He said he was sure the South would agree that a change in the Government's policies "can bring only distress and disaster...
...West Point Cadets on their arrival here on Saturday are to be entertained by the Seniors in the first official "open house" held by a Harvard Class for football visitors...