Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators bore each other so much of the time that the few humorists among them find it easy to raise a laugh, once they put their minds to it. Last week, Matthew Mansfield Neely, the handsome senior Senator from West Virginia, put his mind on Candidate Hoover's reply to Senator Borah's questionnaire on Prohibition (TIME, March 5) and spoke for the space of four columns in the Congressional Record. So successfully did this speech go off that, afterwards, Senator Neely felt justified in editing the parenthesis [Laughter] into the Congressional Record no less than 13 times...
...world-wide reach of Sinclair Consolidated was flung out by the burly Destiny Man to Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; to Angola, in Portuguese West Africa; to Russia. Sinclair's technique was to approach the government of a country with the flyleaf of his checkbook showing. "Men mumble but money talks," is an old oil adage. He would ask for a franchise to prospect for petroleum. If he found some, the government could have it all, except for a million or so acres. Sinclair always got his acres along the coast, where his tank-ships could...
...other newly confirmed Commissioners are Sam Pickard (Kansas), Harold A. La Fount (Utah), Ira E. Robinson (West Virginia). E. O. Sykes (Tennessee) was sole member and acting chairman of the Commission while Congress debated its continued existence last month...
...Sharp twins, Summers H. and George of West Virginia, politicians also, whose mutual affection is state-known...
...Virginia, whom they will meet on April 9 and 10. On April 11, and the next two days, the Harvard team will face teams from the University of Richmond, the Quantico Marines and Georgetown University. The nine will wind up its journey with a game against the cadets at West Point on April...