Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strength. With her sister ships, the Maryland (in commission for some time) and the West Virginia (to be commissioned about December 1), the Colorado ranks as the most formidable of our fleet units. These three ships are our only first line vessels built since the Battle of Jutland, and embody all that was there learned of naval architecture...
...California to visit his son-in-law. There he took opportunity to say that President Coolidge would probably receive the Republican Presidential nomination in 1924, but as for the Democratic choice, "We have a great many available men. There's scarcely a state-North, South, East or West-that could not furnish a capable man. But the trouble is that so many of them are not known throughout the nation." " Will you be a candidate for President in 1924, Mr. Hoover?" asked a curious reporter...
...Greeks occurred from one end of Italy to the other. The Italian Government, which had previously mobilized the fleet at Taranto (in the arch of the Italian boot) refused to accept the Greek reply and ordered its men-of-war to Corfu, a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, west of Greece. On arrival, an Italian naval captain was sent ashore to demand the surrender of the town of Corfu. The Greek Governor stated that he would ask for instructions from Athens before answering the Italian demand. The Italian declined to consider this proposal, and with only ten minutes...
...relief fund for the Japanese with a contribution of $100,000. Six American destroyers of the Asiatic Fleet were despatched to the devastated region with food and clothing, and Admiral Anderson offered the services of the entire Asiatic Fleet. The American Consul at Kobe sent the Shipping. Board Steamer West Orowa to Yokohama with relief supplies. Offers of relief came from all parts of the world...
...attractive, weak woman, told as she is reflected in the lives of her various lovers,: is superbly wrought. I can think of no other picture of broken idealism so striking as that of young Neil confronted with the truth about his idol, Marian Forrester. The background of the Middle West of the last century seems thoroughly inconsequential. The story is that of Marian Forrester. Here, surely, is writing one of the most brilliant technicians in American letters...