Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently announced that he would call for another Senatorial investigation as soon as Congress opens in December. Working silently, as is his habit, the Senator seems to have found new evidence against Air. Fall. It pertains to the Salt Creek oil field of Wyoming, now dominated by the Mid-West Refining...
Every schoolboy knows that the state of West Virginia was born in the early thunder of the Civil War. Its people, refusing to follow Lee into the camp of Jefferson Davis, seceded from Virginia when Virginia seceded from the Union...
...every schoolboy's father is conscious of the peculiar individ uality of the transmontane commonwealth. Wherefore, a joint resolu tion has been introduced into the West Virginia Legislature to change its name to Kanawha. "We need a distinctive name," editorialized one time (1911-17) U. S. Senator Chilton in the Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette. "Then the dumbbells would have to learn it as they have learned Oklahoma. . . . Who is not tired of explaining to the morons that Wheeling is not on the James River...
...chief objection to Kanawha, name ' of a West Virginia river, county, club, hotel, is that the abbreviation would be confused with Kansas. "Transylvania," an alternative, is disliked because of its asso ciation with Hungarian immigrants. Other suggestions: "Lincoln," "Wil son," "Monongahela...
...There will be labor trouble this autumn." That is a prediction few people like to hear, but it is being made. Last week, a loud squeak broke the long labor peace. U. S. marshals in West Virginia arrested four members of the United Mine Workers. They refused bail, were jailed. Warrants were issued for other labor organizers and even for the master of them all-John L. Lewis. Their crime, if any, seems to have been an attempt to unionize a section which, by legal agreement, is nonunion...