Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and Mrs. Coolidge gave a farewell dinner to C. Bascom Slemp, who retired as Secretary to the President. The guests included Secretaries Weeks and Hoover, Speaker Gillett, Senator Hale of Maine, Representatives Longworth and Madden, Commissioners Blair (Internal Revenue) and Burke (Indian Affairs), ex-Senator Sutherland of West Virginia, G. Logan Payne, Washington publisher. Afterward, Mr. Slemp departed for a vacation in Florida before resuming his law practice in Washington...
...west of Ireland suffered for lack of potatoes (its staple food) for the lack of peat (its staple fuel). The Free State Government rushed aid to the stricken area, fed daily 18,000 persons, distributed much free coal...
...Progressive Party, which has as its leader, Robert Forke, M. P. for Brandon, Manitoba, and as its disciple that intrepid Irishman Robert A. Hoey, M. P., for Springfield, Manitoba, is essentially a farmers' party of the West. This party has recently lost faith in Protection, which is understandable enough; for, if the protective tariff were done away with, they would stand to gain by being enabled to buy farm implements, etc., cheaper and at the same time risk nothing, their great wheat markets being unaffected. For all they cared, industry could go by the board...
Hell's Bells chimed with a doubtful harmony. Their refrain told of two miners from the West who came home again to Connecticut. In the clutch of one was a $500 bill. Promptly the old folks mistook them for millionaires. These same designing elders proceeded to prove that the rich relative was insane and should therefore be pitched into a sanitarium, stripped of his riches...
...Devil's Cargo. There was a time when the West was stained with certain undesirable community characters. It is alleged that about 75 years ago, Sacramento gathered together all its undesirables and attempted to deport them to San Francisco. The latter refused to let them land, and out to sea they drifted. The possibilities for romance and dirty work in such a cargo are evident. They have been realized in a generally exciting picture in which Pauline Starke gives a specially good performance...