Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...District Judge West H. Humphreys of Tennessee. Removed from office...
...battery of his cinema cameras in several sizes. He expected to be joined in France by that indefatigable pair of sportsman-explorers, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ethan Akeley.* At quarrying with a camera, Mr. Eastman is no novice. For years his humane-hunting grounds have been the Far West and Canada. Other comrades on this trip: Audley D. Stewart, able Rochester medico, Daniel B. Pomeroy, genial New York banker (cousin of the late Henry Pomeroy Davison...
...slopes of Mt. Kenya where he had been gored by a bull pachyderm, abandoned by his blacks. In 1923 Explorer Akeley went again to Africa. She did not accompany him but obtained a divorce in Chicago, charging cruelty. Then she went to Africa alone, crossed it from east to west with only native porters for company, bagging big game for the Brooklyn Museum. This summer she too will be in Africa again, a quiet, gray-haired woman of slight physique serving science in African jungles. By day, on the march, she wears pith helmet, riding breeches, puttees; in the evening...
What William McFee calls the "Cheerleader in literature" can be heard far and wide. From the tradition encumbered New England littorals comes his rather subdued cry. A voice, more vociferous perhaps, but bearing the same message issues from the rude expanses of the West. In an article in the current issue of Harpers Mr. McFee decries this tendency to proclaim the supreme excellence of the new and sing only the praises of contemporary literature. This group turns with disdain from all outside the present decade and eulogizes the merits of strictly coeval writers, particularly those on the extreme left. They...
Associated Oil and Tide Water Oil locked east and west coast oil production, transportation, refining and marketing into a tight $240,000,000 merger last week. The new company will be named the Tide Water Associated...