Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Possibly, Grandson Ulysses (TIME, Aug. 9, POLITICAL NOTES, p. 10) may be in error in believing that the General was christened Hiram Ulysses. I have in my possession two signatures- one written just after the unwilling cadet had been received at West Point-"U. H. Grant, Georgetown, Ohio"; the other, not long after graduation-"U. H. Grant, 4' Inf." Evidently, Grandson has the names reversed. CHARLES PLATT...
...more shocked than other squeamish persons had been at Dr. Elie Ivanoff's announcement, earlier in the year (TIME, June 28), that he is to try breeding (artificially) orang-outangs with yellow, gorillas with black, and chimpanzees with white, humans, at the Pasteur Institute of Kindia, French West Africa, to try to demonstrate the close relation of human and ape stocks...
Moneyed Negroes. UnderSecretary for the Colonies W. Ormsby-Gore revealed to a group of geographers that the natives of West and East Africa have been amassing wealth; lately substituted "real" currency for cars of cloth and square-faced bottles...
...buildings, people, scenery. "Yours aquatically," he signed his cables. "Yours politically. . . Yours imploringly. . . Regards to 'Cuckooland.' " Readers could only picture the editors of the Times screaming with laughter at lines like: "Don't put too much faith, you Democrats, in rumors that peasants of the Middle West will defeat Coolidge. They change with the wheat crops and he has two to go." Or, "A bunch of American tourists were hissed and stoned yesterday in France, but not until they had finished shopping." Or, "Suzanne Lenglen has been landed by Pyle. He is now here in London trying...
...last year; sold currently at $1.40 to $1.45 a bushel. The U. S. leads the world in production. Next is India with one half as much. Kansas leads the U. S. for winter wheat, North Dakota for spring wheat. Harvest is almost completed in the North and West. In the Dakotas and Minnesota the crop (spring) was short on account of dry weather, although showers helped the late crop of North Dakota. Dry weather persisted in Montana, but low temperature saved the stands. Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia report fat crops...