Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME COMMITTED A GROSS AND UNPARDONABLE BLUNDER IN LINKING WEST VIRGINIA WITH MELLONIZED PENNSYLVANIA IN ITS ARTICLE ON THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSIONS RECENT RATE DECISION STOP WEST VIRGINIA IS GREATLY AGGRIEVED BY THE COMMISSIONS ARBITRARY UNPRECEDENTED RULING STOP LET TIME SEEK SENATOR NEELEY OR THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD FOR EDIFICATION...
TIME erred in not distinguishing between Northern and Southern West Virginia...
...mother died when he was three years old, and he went to his mother's people on the New Reservation, sixty miles west of Topeka. At the age of nine he turns up in the white man's end of Kansas as a jockey, riding races at the county fairs. At the age of seventeen Curtis left the track and got a job driving a hack in Topeka. By day he went to school. By night he drove his cab. Forming a friendship with a lawyer, he became interested in the law, and studied in his small spare time...
There is no surer road to party eminence than regularity, and Curtis is nothing if not regular. He was so regular on the occasion of that important test of regularity, the great schisur of 1912, that he not only stood by Taft-- though he came from the insurgent West--but confidently predicted that Taft was the only man who could win and that he would be triumphantly reelected. The same regularity has been evident in other important crises in his party's history. In 1912 Curtis voted to unseat Lorimer; but in 1911 he had voted to seat...
...depend on what has happened to the Hoover boom, the Lowden boom, the Dawes boom, and various other major and minor booms before the delegates assemble--how far short of a majority any single candidate remains, how available the engineers of the convention consider a candidate from the Middle West, strong in the Senate, popular with the farmers and yet no fire eater...