Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubtless you are that New Yorker who asked how far west of Buffalo one began to see the Indians...
Subscriber* Zweiger, in his letter in TIME, Feb: 28, expresses, not only the most sublime ignorance in his knowledge of this state, but also the most assinine absurdness. Then, too, his knowledge of national affairs is appallingly lacking. 1) Has he ever been asked to leave the State of West Virginia for reasons best known to himself ? 2) Could it be possible that he was in the coal production business in Ohio, only to lose out because of the mighty strides the coal industry in this state, which has left Ohio mines high and dry, in so far as business...
...statement made by George Zweiger in TIME, Feb. 28, is one that makes me write you about such a statement, which anyone who has ever stayed in West Virginia any length of time will know is not true, and those who have not will be lead on the wrong track fearing they will come in contact with such people as stated by George Zweiger in Ohio's Coal...
...Were startled when Viscount Burnham, outstanding publicist, holder of an LL. D. from the universities of Cambridge, McGill, Athens and Perth (West Australia) began to speak bristling words of indignation: "The proceedings of this House now constitute a parliamentary scandal! The House of Commons now passes what bills they please and shovel them upon us too rapidly for serious contemplation or debate. The indignities now heaped upon the House of Lords* would not have been tolerated 30 years ago. I fail to see why they are tolerated...
Along the Chinese battlefront west of Shanghai all was suspiciously quiet last week. Suddenly the subordinate Northern general* in command of Shanghai's immediate defenses went over to the Southern enemy, ordered the 2,000 troops under his command to withdraw back toward Shantung whence they came only a fortnight ago (TIME, March 7). Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave...