Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years. It took action ir about 1,000 of these cases. Of late, Congress has got more and more in the habit of asking the Commission to make investigations. Recently, President Coolidge appointed W. E. Humphrey, onetime (1903-17) Congressman from Washington, his pre-Convention campaign manager in the West, to the Commission. Then things began to happen-for the first time the conservatives were in control. Two overt acts...
...merger will invade fourteen states: New York, Ohio Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, The Carolinas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas. In addition, branch lines from these states will enter still other states. Cities affected by the merger...
...mankind's intellectual liberty had been cropping up all over the country lately-an anti-parochial-and-private-school law in Oregon (TIME, Mar. 30, SUPREME COURT), similar laws (defeated, however) in Alabama and Michigan, lukewarm efforts for an anti-evolution law in Florida, similar laws pending in West Virginia and Georgia, narrowly defeated in Kentucky and North Carolina, passed but repealed in Oklahoma. Tennessee's case, for all its levity of origin, was clean-cut. It iso- lated the issue of all the others. So "Rappelyea's razzberry" grew to mammoth size. Last week, Dayton...
...Outside the Church, hundreds of people knew that the great moment of the ceremony had arrived. Silver bugles were sounded from the dome of the Church. Their clarion notes cut the still air with peculiar sweetness. A few seconds later, from the north, south, east and west, the bells of Rome's 400 churches tolled their...
Today he is a living example of the revolution which Mr. Edison has made possible in modern living -for he is President of the Commonwealth Edison Co., which furnishes all of Chicago's electric light, master of a great group of public utilities in the West -many of them grown up out of Mr. Edison's inventions -President of the Chicago Civic Opera Company and in general a magnate of the Middle West. He, with others-aids and witnesses of wholesale changes wrought by Edison inventions-did honor to the inventor.' Through it all a big white...