Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...residence sections, we spend long summer afternoons on green lawns beneath deep-shading palm, pepper, eucalyptus and umbrella trees, the fragrance of summer all about us, and love the tonic warmth as one never could the sticky, muggy afternoons of the middle west, where I grew up. We keep our houses closed and cool and dark, and open them to the almost unfailing night breeze. We go cool and peacefully to sleep-as one does not in July and August in Iowa-and long before morning we grope for blankets...
...Reed. Having roused the Southwest, stirred the Midwest and harangued the Kentucky Legislature, Candidate Reed last week set forth for fresh adventures in North Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin. After those States, he said, he would visit Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, New York. He said he was sure people were glad he had revived a method of campaigning that was "good enough for Abraham Lincoln." A Reed campaign fund was begun by his Missouri friends. The slogan: "A Dollar...
...trio had been called as a result of developments earlier in the week. From witness after witness the Committee had heard more about strike conditions in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Clergymen and newsgatherers (including passionate Fannie Hurst) had brought fresh tales of squalor, brutality, poverty, Bolshevism...
Then Van A. Bittner, representative of the United Mine Workers, had laid upon Mr. Schwab's and Mr. Rockefeller's interests in West Virginia, the same charge that had previously been laid upon Mr. Mellon's company and other Pittsburgh operators, namely, violation of a wage agreement, in spirit if not in letter. The method used, he said, had been to shut down the mines for a time, then reopen them and offer work to non-union men at wages below the agreed union scale. These moves by the Schwab and Rockefeller companies, Bittner declared, were what had driven...
...Nineteenth Century American Writers of the South and West Bret Harte", Professor Murdock, Harvard...