Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Economic discomfiture for a people is political discomfiture for a government. Spurred on by the agonized cry of the wheat farmers in the West, the Cabinet spent two sessions largely devoted to the question: How can the farmer be satisfied? The President wished an answer. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace prepared a report. And others, outside the Cabinet, visited the White House from time to time to offer suggestions...
Republican officeholders are none too popular in the Democratic South. From West Point, Va., came the report that a Republican appointed as Postmaster there was the recipient of undesirable attention from his customers. They bought large quantities of special delivery stamps and flooded the office with letters which the postmaster had to spend most of the night delivering...
...Lost Lady* Miss Cather Reconstructs the West of the Railroad Kings...
...remedy this situation, the Republican National Convention of 1920 adopted a new set of rules for allotting delegates. Chairman John T. Adams of the Republican National Committee last week announced the allotment for the convention of 1924, by which the South will lose 23 delegates and the North and West gain 75 delegates...
...Ward G. Reeder of Ohio State University examined the question, published his results. He based his calculations on the circulation of " ten magazines having the largest circulation."- The startling point of the survey is that, although most magazines are published in the East, most magazines are read in the West. The calculations show the percentage of the entire population which is supposed to be the magazine-reading public. District of Columbia 3.7 California 25.8 Oregon 24.9 Washington 24.1 Nevada 21.25 Wyoming 20.8 Montana 18.5 Colorado 17.9 Massachusetts 17.8 Connecticut 17.2 Idaho 17.0 Ohio 16.8 Mississippi ranked last with about...