Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candidate Smith was praised on the East coast by President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University, who called him a "high type." Candidate Smith was praised on the West coast by Novelist Gertrude Atherton, great grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, who, addressing her fellow Californians before the crucial May Day primary, said: "Smith is the only man who has any human appeal. . . . He is a man. He is open-minded and openhanded. He stirs the affections. He is honest and direct. He is no humbug professing all things and practicing nothing. Vote the humbugs down. Women want real men to represent...
...McNary Bill passed the Senate 53 votes to 23. Only seven Senators from west of the Mississippi voted or paired against it-Borah, Phipps, Shortridge, Warren, Smoot, Walsh, King. Of the Senate's eight Presidential possibilities, the Messrs, Borah, Goff and Walsh were the only ones who stood against what Honest John Farmer is said to want...
...flagship, the Concord, and of the destroyer Sands and the repair ship Dobbin, discovered four more baggages. They said they were Billy Lacer, Rose McQuire, Flossie Rice, Ramilda Avery, "waitresses from Philadelphia." They had been sneaked aboard at New Orleans. Commander Clark led his ships into Key West. The waitresses were disembarked. Courts martial began...
...arrive at conclusions, but they have shown us the complexity and the multitude of Indian problems. Each province, in fact, has its own difficulties and their solution will not be found in a repetition of vague generalities. India is the real meeting ground of the East and West...
...Berlin, proud possessor of a heroic war record; Arthur Spindler, co-pilot and mechanic, who had been Capt. Koehl's sergeant during the War. They announced themselves on the way to the U. S., determined to be the first to make the hazardous wind-bucking passage East to West...