Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected " angels" of the next Republican campaign: William Wrigley, Jr., multimillionaire in chewing gum; E. T. Stotesbury of J. P. Morgan & Co.; Frank W. Stearns, wealthy dry goods merchant of Boston, long a backer of Mr. Coolidge; James H. Stanley, lawyer, of Denver, and Republican pillar in the West...
...would be solidly behind him at the Convention. Mr. McAdoo has the most votes lined up for the Democratic Convention of any candidate, but he has far fewer than the necessary 729(one-third). New York is adverse to his advances and he places his main confidence in the West and South, if Ford and Underwood do not make too much headway against...
...Court of St. James?thither will go an ambassador from west of the Mississippi...
...conferences. Their numbers include Robert Lincoln O'Brien of the Boston Herald, Adolph S. Ochs of The New York Times, Walter. S. Dickey of the Kansas City Journal, Frank Knox of The Manchester (N. H.) Union, John C. Shaffer, publisher of a group of papers in the Middle West...
...Rebecca West, the English novelist and critic (whose real name is Cecily Fairfield), had just arrived in Manhattan and we were driving up Broadway. She found the Wrigley chewing-gum sign with its flashing colors delightful. She had found the harbor of New York inspiring. Said she: " I intend to remain in America a long time-long enough to write a new novel...