Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albert Henry O'Neil '28 of West Roxbury, yesterday was unanimously elected captain of the 1928, University track team by the 1927 lettermen gathered at Notman's for the squad picture. He succeeds E. C. Haggerty '27, this year's leader of the Crimson track and field forces...
...that the militia might join the mutineers. The soldiers declared that they wanted their pay and intended to take it from the treasury. They pointed their guns at the Congressional windows but did not fire them. Congress sent an urgent message for help to Washington, who was then at West Point, and without waiting to see what the result would be, the members of Congress unheroically slipped through the back door and made their way through a golden June sunset to Princeton in New Jersey, thus abandoning the seat of government to eighty mutineers and a sergeant."-Washington-Hero...
Last week in Chicago, in Kansas City, Mo., and in Omaha another Southerner once more raised the state rights banner, with Prohibition as the subject of his story. Touring the West in an unofficial but unmistakable preConvention campaign, Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland warned his audiences against overcentralization of power. "This centralization of government into remote hands," said he, "chills the free play of the free impulses of a free people...
...Sections. Meanwhile the flood remained split into two sections. West of the Atchafalaya River the flood waters which last fortnight crumbled the Bayou de Glaize levees moved south, poured into the Atchafalaya River far more water than its banks could hold. This was the western half of the flood. The eastern half was the main stream of the Mississippi...
...Atchafalaya to join the main Mississippi stream after flooding the dry strip between the rivers. In this strip, about 100 miles long and 25 miles wide, are the parishes of Pointe Coupee, Iberville and Assumption with a population of about 80,000. Five other parishes to the south and west would be partially flooded. Meanwhile the Mississippi itself was falling from St. Paul to New Orleans and further fall was predicted...