Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge appointed Howard Sutherland, onetime (1917-23) Senator from West Virginia, to succeed the late Frederick C. Hicks (TIME, Dec. 28, MILESTONES) as Alien Property Custodian...
...hours later the patrolman's attention was arrested by a crimson puddle of blood that spread its darkening stain over the flagstones at No. 346 West 41st St. A hundred feet from the corner the Negro lay in the gutter with two bullet holes in his body. Patrolman Meehan glanced casually at the black, distorted face, and then stepped to the telephone to inform his captain that the person known to the police as Louis Phal, and to the public as Battling Siki, once light- heavyweight champion of the world, had been shot to death...
...Hartwell Carver before the U. S. Congress. Not until 1862, however, was a practical start made on the vast stretch west of the Mississippi River. In that year, the Union Pacific began construction westward from Omaha, and simultaneously the Central Pacific began laying track eastward from San Francisco. In 1869 the two roads met and were joined at Promontory Point, Utah-thus completing steam transcontinental service...
...Burr was admitted to the bar at Albany and six months later, then 26, he married Theodosia Barton Prevost. In spite of his attainments with the ladies, he married a woman, ten years his senior, the widow of a British officer who had died in the West Indies, the mother of five children, but she was one of the most accomplished women in America...
...Good Friday, April 21, 1916, the German submarine U-719 eased up out of the sea off the west coast of Ireland. As the conning tower hatch was raised, a tall, thin, cadaverous Irishman with thick black hair and a pointed beard looked out. His complexion, deeply tanned during the long years he had spent serving the British Crown in the tropics, was now grown sallow and his forehead showed a network of tiny lines. Though Edward VII had knighted him, he was now about to commit the last act in a conspiracy of high treason against the realm...