Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Detroit and Chicago seemed the likeliest candidates-San Francisco because she offered so much money** and was in the attention-loving West; Cleveland and Philadelphia because they are nearer Washington and it may be that Congress will not have adjourned-thanks to Democratic strategy-before the G. O. P. convention meets. Cleveland and Philadelphia moreover were both unembarrassed by "native sons." It is considered bad political form to nominate a man in his own state. The possibility of Herbert C. Hoover's being chosen counted against San Francisco for this reason. In Pennsylvania, the only native...
Cleveland had the 1924 G. O. P. convention. Chicago had five in a row before that. Chicago has had nine Republican conventions since the G. O. Party nominated its second candidate (Abraham Lincoln) there in 1860. The National Republican executive secretary (Lawyer Roy Owen West) is a Chicagoan, and, despite all the talk, Illinois is not likely to be embarrassed by a favorite son. The dissonant quatrian...
...April, this year, when other miners in western Pennsylvania went on strike. It was bitter November last week, when some 400 officials of the American Federation of Labor and subsidiaries met in Pittsburgh to hear of the hardships and grievances of the Pennsylvania miners and their striking comrades in West Virginia and Ohio who, with dependents, brought the total number of sufferers...
...brief for the coal companies" (New York Herald Tribune) commented succinctly on the "gigantic conspiracies" alleged by Mr. Lewis, as follows: "Only a first-hand observer would care to hazard an opinion as to the methods used by both companies and unions in the mine wars of Pennsylvania and West Virginia; but one does not have to be an observer to feel that there is something wrong about this picture. An economic and social tragedy which has now lasted over a long period of years of general prosperity can hardly find its sole cause in capitalistic conspiracies or its sole...
...University of West Virginia the Y. W. C. A. asked Author Kirby Page to lecture to them on pacificism. President Frank Butler Trotter forbade Mr. Page the use of the campus for his speech. "Why?" asked Mr. Page. Answered President Trotter: "Because this is a state-supported institution and too much turmoil had been caused by the invitation." The Reserve Officers Training Corps, the American Legion, the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Ku Klux Klan had protested. Mr. Page spoke outside the campus, to 75 students...