Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debating team from Harvard will tour the Middle West this spring for the first time since the war, announced F.W.P. Lorenzen '28, President of the Debating Council...
...team will leave for the West in the third week of April, during the spring vacation. The first debate will be against the University of Pittsburgh on April 16. From Pittsburgh the team will travel to Grennell, Iowa, where they are scheduled to debate on April 18. From then on debates will take place on successive days, the next being against Iowa University at Iowa City on April 19. Ames, also in Iowa, will be the scene of the fourth debate, the Crimson orators arguing against the Iowa State College on April 20. The last debate definitely scheduled will take...
...oiled machine has preyed upon the ears of the White House within the last fortnight. That drone was the culmination of the three-year-old groan of the sick farmer. That drone was the work of militant farm organizations, skillful lobbyists, a group of Senators and Representatives from the West and South who have convinced majorities in Congress that the proper medicine for the sick farmer is the McNary-Haugen bill (TIME, Feb. 14). Many who favor this cure say it is bitter; perhaps it is unconstitutional. President Coolidge, though he may not want to, must decide whether this cure...
Besides the oldtimers of the Canal Zone, many a Russian might recognize Mr. Stevens should he revisit Siberia. He was president of the interallied technical board which improved trans-Asian travel during and after the War. They would know him, perhaps, in West Gardiner, Me., where he was born, "chock full of energy." They might know him almost anywhere between the Mississippi and the Pacific, especially in the Northwest, where he laid out vast stretches of the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern roads. Near Havre, Mont., there is a statue to jog the memory. It stands on a bleak ridge...
...great handicap-thriftlessness of time, health, money.' Chicago Commissioner of Health Bundesen followed me, urged Negroes to eat properly so as to avoid anemia, pneumonia, rickets." Pliny Fisk, financier: "After dining in a Columbus Circle restaurant one evening last week, I walked toward my hotel, on the upper west side of Manhattan, alone. A large Negro brushed roughly by me. 'Be careful how you are walking,' said I. 'Mind you' own business,' he retorted. An instant later this Negro, with two companions who sprang from nowhere, seized and dragged me into the hallway...