Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lowering the prices of these crops from year to year, as the law of supply and demand indicates, and relying upon the law of incentive, a balance can be kept and continuous surpluses avoided." Next day, Mr. Meredith turned political interpreter and said that "Progressive Democrats from the West and South" would rally behind William Gibbs McAdoo for President on a Dry platform. Mr. Meredith has always been a better editor and farmers' friend than politician. The trait seems to run in his family...
...received assurances from Persia, the Egyptian Nationalists, Syria, Afghanistan, Mesopotamia, China and Soviet Russia that those nations are ready to enter "an Oriental League of Nations predominated by Russia and Turkey . . . supported by a million bayonets . . . with the potential possibilities of arraying ten million fighting men against ... the West." To serious diplomatic watchers of the sky, the annoying thing about Hearstian scoops is that now and again they are "straight." Strangely enough the Philadelphia Public Ledger Foreign Service turned up an equally unique "scoop" to the effect that M. Tchitcherin would speed to Paris and there lay before Foreign Minister...
...being regarded by Orientals with anything but suspicion. At Tokyo, the Board of Directors of the Pan-Asiatic Society of Japan denounced the proposed Asiatic League, saying that they propose to work for Asiatic union "along peaceful lines and not in imitation of the war like League of the West...
...accepting only the sovereign's face at face value. Irish Free State Finance Minister Ernest Blythe, brusque, intimated that he might offer the U. S. mint the job of striking 100% Irish coins. Arlington Street is one of the shortest and most august in London's West End. Every house on the street is the property of a peer or peeress. Last week Aimée Geraldine, Baroness Michelham, created a sensation by announcing that her residence at 20 Arlington Street is for sale. . . . Should some oleagenous nouveau riche purchase historic "Number 20" he will have as neighbors...
...critics: " 'I don't approve of it,' said I, bluntly last week, referring to the award to Bernard Shaw of the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature. I refused to explain my stand, saying I was 'not looking for publicity.' I noted that Rebecca West, the distinguished English novelist, is reported to have said: 'In England we all feel it is perfectly absurd the Nobel Prize has never been awarded to Thomas Hardy. It is regarded as a grave reflection upon the manner in which the winner is selected. We don't feel...