Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been interested in reading the letters exchanged through your pages by vehement supporters of Ohio and West Virginia. In the interest of fair play, although an Ohioan I wish to take exception to the letter of George Zweiger (TIME, Feb. 28) in which he referred to West Virginia as "Ohio's coal bin." While a good Ohioan, still I perceive many of our state's shortcomings. We do everything fairly well but nothing exceptionally well. For instance, statistics show that there are more colleges of learning in Ohio than in any state of the Union...
...assemble a quorum; many a missing Senator would like to hear Senator Ashurst; perhaps we can get some business done," suggested Senator Neely of West Virginia in effect. So an order was adopted, authorizing Sergeant-at-Arms David S. Barry* to arrest absentees. Mr. Barry and five assistants scurried to telephones, told Senators to hurry to work. An hour later, he made the following report to the Senate: "Mr. Bayard could not come because he is getting ready to go out of town to attend a funeral tomorrow. . . . Mr. Caraway's telephone, it is said, has been disconnected...
...successful. But there will undoubtedly be strikes in Ohio and Pennsylvania when the Jacksonville agreement expires on April 1. Such a strike will cause no immediate tremor, because there is already enough soft coal above ground and enough being mixed in the non-union fields of West Virginia and Kentucky to last well into next winter...
...Capitulates. Chang and Sun met at Nanking, west of Shanghai, last week. The tall, heavy-muscled Chang curtly told the man from whom he had accepted $2,000,000 that gold was a thing of the past. Remained steel and lead. In these Chang predominated. He Would be generous. Sun might keep his head upon his shoulders...
...When the new War Lord of Shanghai, Chang Tsung-chang (see above) began to pour his troops into the city last week, the British landed 5,000 troops and encamped them two miles West of Shanghai ready for any emergency. Eleven thousand more British troops were aboard ships in the harbor, as were 3,000 U. S. marines and 600 Japanese troops...