Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...News-Magazine Sept. 12, 1. Sirs: Please permit me to take exception to the statement of W. Inge from Los Angeles, Calif., where he states (on your letter page) that it is difficult to get a copy of your worthy periodical in the West Indies, and when one does get a copy, it is out of date...
...Freshmen will gather in the Smith Halls quadrangle at 2.15 and form in line. They will march out the West gate and down Boylston Street across Anderson Bridge to the Stadium, Section 35 has been reserved for them...
Last week Senator Robert N. Stanfield of Oregon touring the West with the Senate Public Lands Committee (vide supra) stopped at Baker, Ore., on personal business while his colleagues went on to Boise, Idaho. In Baker, Senator Stanfield became hungry and decided...
...Hearst as a politician has not been notoriously successful. His father, who went West in 1850, made a few millions in mining and became a Senator from California. William Randolph has made a great many more millions, out of paper and ink, but he has had no great success as a politician. In 1896 and 1900 he backed Bryan. In 1902 he took boss Croker's nomination from Tammany and was elected to Congress from the 11th New York District. He served two terms (four years) and it has been said that he did not appear in Congress more than...
...Pony Express. He did not talk so convincingly to his actors; the story was wrong; something was the matter. For several reels the picture gallops along at a good gait. Excitement and conviction. Then it suddenly tires out and ends half asleep. It is a story of the West and Southwest just before the Civil War and deals with the juggling of state despatches. Ernest Torrence and Ricardo Cortez perform acceptably. Betty Compson, the love interest, is rather less effective...