Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governors. But the institution may be still in its infancy. Last week, 23 Governors foregathered at Jacksonville for their 16th annual conference. Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, of course, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Mississippi and the Territory of Hawaii were represented...
...Cruder, West Virginia...
Died. Thomas H. Ince, 44, famed cinema producer; in Hollywood, following a sudden heart attack. An actor in his early years, he scorned the cinema, took his first motion picture job only because he was penniless. He established the first studio on the west coast at Santa Monica, Calif., christened it "Inceville," there made the first cowboy pictures...
...second prize was awarded to the extraordinary new structure of the American Radiator Co. on West 40th Street. It is a great black tower, looking not unlike a pile of coal, culminating in glowing gold and yellow, like the flames of an unbanked fire. One of its most notable features is its display basement, where stokers in uniform show heating appliances in actual operation in an elaborately decorative furnace room with a vaulted ceiling...
...comprehend the indisputable fact that the Pacific is the center of activities to be. Affairs are already on the move from the Atlantic. Japan and America will play the leading roles in these Pacific problems that will present themselves. Japan has the strategic position of the East. The West cannot deny it. Today in Japan there is taking place a tremendous conflict or social forces which should be studied with great care by Americans. If your nation and mine are to play the lead in international affairs, in years to come, we must make an effort to understand each other...