Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Virginia's votes for Goff will be a tribute to a well-disciplined Old Guardsman. They will remove the last trace of the disrepute which Guardsman Goff suffered from his connection with the Alien Property scandals under Attorney General Daugherty. Other reasons for the gesture will be to head off Hooverism in West Virginia and to carry on a State tradition. West Virginia Republicans almost always have a Favorite Son. In 1920 it was Howard Sutherland, the coal man from Elkins who sat in the Senate from 1917 to 1923 and is now U. S. Alien Property Custodian...
...doorbell at the home of Joseph Adams, 300-pound mayor of West City, Ill., rang one evening. Mayor Adams went to the door, opened it, and was shot dead by two young men. The bullets were poisoned, to make doubly sure that the wounds would be fatal...
...West Point training was followed by fire-baptism in the Mexican War, where heroic service at Cerro Gordo, Contreras-Churubusco and Chapultepec led General Scott to designate young Lee "the greatest living soldier in America." Engineer work in Washington and Baltimore taught him to construct defenses, a knowledge which was to serve him well. For three years he superintended West Point...
...Voronoff in the inconspicuous city of Adana, some 30 miles inland from the southern coast of Turkey. The chief question of vital interest was whether there would also be present one of the lively young chimpanzees which are bred especially for Dr. Voronoff's convenience in French West Africa by the Pasteur Institute. With thin sharp knives Surgeon Voronoff can slice from a chimpanzee glands which he then swiftly inserts in a human so unscrupulous as to wish to profit by the poor beast's loss...
...west, outstanding expeditions of the season have been...