Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge announced last week that he would take his summer vacation in the West. In what particular spot, he did not say. The West is big; it begins, no one knows just where; it ends at the Pacific Ocean. Some say that the President is going West to placate the embattled farmers; others believe that he merely wants to fish. Also, said some, to shoot...
...beer trucks, slaughter one another's men. There are four major gangs: one on the North Side (with a onetime assistant state's attorney as its adviser) ; two on the south side (one of which is led by "Polack Joe" Saltis) ; one on the far west side with headquarters in Cicero where famed "Scarface Al" Caponi is king (TIME, Oct. 11). Their wars are flamboyant spectacles-a multi-punctured body on the steps of the Holy Name Cathedral in broad daylight, two more corpses across the street at the door of a florist's shop . . . the funeral...
...rescued, told his tale in London, and was fictionized for posterity as "Robinson Crusoe"* by Daniel Defoe. Last week Dictator Premier Carlos Ibanez of Chile announced that the Chilean "Reds" recently arrested by his agents (TIME, March 7) would be exiled on Mas-a-fuera Island, 100 miles west of "Robinson Crusoe's Island," supplied with tools and implements, with livestock and building material, guarded by Chilean soldiers and given an opportunity to test out their "Red" theories in a colony built by themselves...
...best scheme to maintain prestige is to fight for principle, last week invented another for which it will (editorially) battle: Purchase of Western Railroads by Western Investors.* Thus, while President Ralph Budd of the Great Northern and Harry Byram of the reorganized Milwaukee (old name: St. Paul) stump the west concerning the merger of the northwestern railroads, the Tribune argued: "What this [west] section does require from its railroads and what it is not receiving in proper measure, is prompt response to public demands for service. Translated for the railroad stockholder that means prompt response to the opportunity for profit...
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE-Felix Riesenberg - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Epical treatment of Manhattan, isle of psychlones...