Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with his flourishing big double-C signature. Cabinet members (all except Secretary of the Treasury Mellon were present) and learned Senators were called to his side to give a word or two of hasty advice. Six minor bills (such as "an act to reinstate Joe Burton Coursey in the West Point Military Academy") aroused the President's suspicion, so he decided to take them home. Failure to sign these six within ten days will kill them by "pocket veto...
...Speaker: "Such an epithet cannot be allowed in the House of Commons. The Right Honorable gentleman from West Ham must withdraw it or leave the House...
Governor Gore of West Virginia received a letter signed, in behalf of a great many of his fellow West Virginians, by the United Mine Workers of America. He was asked to call a special session of the legislature for impeachment proceedings against Judge I. Grant Lazzelle of the Monongalia County circuit. The miners charged that Judge Lazzelle, who, with his brothers and sister, leases coal lands to operators in Monongalia County and enjoys fat royalties, was guilty of "maladministration, corruption, incompetency and neglect of duty." Lately he refused the miners an injunction against four coal companies that had allegedly abrogated...
...voted also to increase their common capital stock from 450,000 shares to an even 1,000,000. They ordered officers to sell $20,000,000 of stock at once, so they might purchase control of the scores of cinema theatres Balaban & Katz own or control throughout the middle west. Thus they were subtly evading the Federal Trade Commission's wish that theatre and exhibition interests be separated from production and distribution. But then, Famous Players-Lasky Corp. is a holding company of many diverse possessions worth millions...
...DECLINE OF THE WEST-Oswald Spengler - Translated by Charles Francis Atkinson-Knopf ($6). The U. S. publication of what is commonly regarded as the outstanding historico-philosophical treatise of 20th Century Germany is an item of import to be noted if not investigated by the average man. The book itself, of a profoundly speculative nature, will have to pass through numerous academic abridgments and crystallizations before it can touch the consciousness of the mass of Western mankind, of whose ideational processes it tells. In its own words, "The attempt is made for the first time to determine history in advance...