Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soon after Nominee Hoover left, President Coolidge announced that Roy Owen West of Chicago had been appointed Secretary of the Interior, succeeding Dr. Hubert Work, national chairman for Hooverism (see THE CABINET). No successor to Nominee Hoover as Secretary of Commerce was named or reliably rumored...
...Owen West of Illinois became Secretary of the Interior without reasonable doubt that the Senate would confirm him when it meets. Aged 60, circumspect, alert, "regular" pince-nezzed, he had done well as a Chicago lawyer, served faithfully as a G. 0. Politician in Illinois (five times State Chairman, three times National Delegate, twice National Committeeman, and for the Coolidge campaign National Secretary). This year he was to have been vice chairman of the National Finance Committee, but he said he would resign that job at once and "familiarize myself with the great office for which I have been chosen...
...Summer White House made it plain that the West appointment was in no way meant to presume upon or embarrass the Cabinetmaking of a hypothetical President Hoover...
...earliest description of the disease was given by British Naval Surgeon John Atkins on his return from West Africa in 1734. He wrote: "The Sleepy Distemper (common among the Negroes) gives no other previous Notice, than a want of Appetite two or three days before; their sleeps are sound, and Sense and Feeling very little; for pulling,drubbing or whipping will scarce stir up Sense and Power enough to move; and the Moment you cease beating the smart is forgot, and down they fall again into a state of Insensibility, drivling constantly from the Mouth as if in deep salivation...
News of the golf hawk's danger came to grey, wrinkled Clement Lawrence Shaver of West Virginia. Mr. Shaver had just been superseded as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee after four thankless years in that office (see p. 7). His mind was free, his troubles over. He felt, no matter what Mrs. Shaver might say about Democratic iniquities, at peace with his fellow creatures. He sent a telegram to the directors of the Wildwood Club, saying: "Fortunate indeed is the golf course which can claim the honor of a great bird that can outbid the game in interest...