Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From an exterior viewpoint, "Jim" Good represents an element in the administration satisfying to a large portion of the public. The West, of course, is pre-eminently satisfied by claiming the President. Among the ranking Cabinet members, the East can look with pride upon the Messrs. Stimson and Mellon at the No. 1 and No. 2 positions. At No. 3 comes Mr. Good, of the Midwestern midwestern, more citified than Vice President Curtis, less tycoonesque than Secretary Lamont. While Yale men point with pride to Statesman Stimson, and Harvard men to Secretary Adams, Secretary Good is satisfying to that large...
...Lexington: "Now as to why I appoint only Negro youths to West Point and Annapolis. The black man has taken part in every war. . . . Until some white Congressman sees fit to recommend a Negro, I feel it my duty to recommend Negroes only, for through me is their only chance of gaining this opportunity...
...Harlem: "When I got to Congress and nominated my first candidate for West Point I picked the blackest boy I could find anywhere. My appointee has been writing disheartening letters. ... If the young man gets cold feet and quits West Point because of any racial discrimination, next time I'll appoint a bigger and blacker Negro...
...development. Such items cannot and must not be included." One large drop of utility "water" was extracted by Solicitor Russell when, as a working example of what he meant, he struck $500.000 from the capital account of Cumberland River Power Co., a subsidiary of Samuel Insull's Middle West Utilities Co., now seeking a U. S. license to construct a plant at Cumberland Falls, Ky. Out went a $250,000 stock transaction item between Cumberland Co. and other Insull companies ''to pay for option, engineering reports, license and rights." Out also went a $250,000 pledge...
...Picalas made 60 gals, of elderberry wine. It contained 5% alcohol. He drank some, was not intoxicated. U. S. agents seized him. A U. S. court in West Virginia convicted him of violating the Volstead Act, which specifically permits the manufacture of "non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice" for home use. Last week at Richmond the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction, sent Sam Picalas and his elderberry wine back to West Virginia for retrial, with orders that a jury pass on whether or not this beverage was intoxicating in fact...