Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Salem...
...which France can pay part of her debt is to cede to us her possessions in the West Indies, which are of no use to her, but which would be of inestimable value to us as outposts to protect our coast and to protect the Panama Canal. Every one of them, to borrow a phrase of Napoleon, is a cannon pointed at the heart of the United States...
...mere possibility of using a distasteful tonic as beer, the end of the matter might well be the prohibition of the raising of grain, fruit. Simultaneously wise Mark Sullivan (political critic) suggested that the eastern wets were all wrong in advocating "beer and wine" because in the West beer is dreaded as much as anything. The reason for the dread is that beer is associated with saloons. For it was brewers like Pabst and AnheuserBusch who monopolized the saloon business, controlled the licenses, exerted through the saloon an influence on public affairs. As owners of saloons, the beer men were...
Later, Peorians pressed their inquiries.. Mid-West newspapers took...
...York Times explained, regretted. Mr. Wheeler made no statement. But Peorians, their suspicion aroused, were not satisfied until next day, when reporters of Mid-West, papers vouched that they had seen the one-eyed one resting in his home, at Westerville, Ohio...