Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attacked the "impotence" of the Administration's foreign policy, the "failure" of the Administration to wipe out corruption, the protective tariff and the Ku Klux Klan. Then he retired for a brief rest on his estate at Long Island, only to set forth once more into the Middle West, first into Indiana, speaking at Richmond, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Terre Haute, Evansville. . . . He planned then to swing across Illinois to St. Louis, and return East by way of Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio...
...happened at Washington. I don't have to outline in detail what has taken place there, but it has done more harm than all the farmers and wage earners in the United States would ever create. The brains of the Republican Party have been spilled all over the West with the junior Senator of Iowa [Brookhart] throwing not only the monkey wrench but the whole machine shop into the machinery...
...Borah opened his campaign for reëlection. The Republicans had been praying him to give them strong support. LaFollette had asked him to follow Brookhart into the Progressive fold. The reason both wanted Borah was because, with the possible exception of LaFollette, politically he is the strongest man west of the Mississippi. And it is a good guess that the reason for his strength is that he does not do the kind of thing they asked...
...class will follow the Band to Soldiers Field through Gate 2, then around behind the wooden stands and onto the field through the West entrance and across the field to their seats in section 35. During the procession football songs will be sung...
Knute Rockne's much touted Notre Dame team comes east a favorite over West Point in their contest at the Polo Grounds. Percy Haughton's Columbia team has a hard afternoon in store with Pennsylvania, and Rutgers can hardly expect to beat Cornell, even though Williams handed the Ithacans a defeat last Saturday...