Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...straightforward if rather blunt way of dealing with the situation of farmer dissatisfaction which confronts the Republicans in the Middle West. Wheat at $1.50 and $10 hogs are not his entire program. Said he to an interviewer : " The best thing that could happen to this country would be to have Congress not meet for three years, and have no State Legislature meet for four years...
...hope that it would tend to lessen strikes and breaches of agreement. The result has been just the opposite. . . . Under the check-off the United Mine Workers raise every year more than $17,000,000. From this huge sum they paid the expenses of the armed invasion of West Virginia in 1921. ... By it (the checkoff) they recently raised $900,-000 in Illinois to defeat justice against the Herrin murderers...
...fact that this problem is not only a problem for Europe. It is a problem that is on the firing line of the Northwest today, and I pray to God it will not be on the firing line of the South tomorrow. ... I see black clouds blowing from the West...
...Reading West of the Water Tower has convinced me that warm weather and realism do not go together. The effort is like that of digesting pork chops after luncheon on the Fourth of July. What a relief, therefore, to pick up a book like Freeman Tilden's Mr. Podd. Call it what you like ? burlesque, satire, sociological tract?it still remains funny, genuinely funny, and I have an idea that many of us will go a long way to hear of and then to find a really funny book. Mr. Podd is apparently on the way to the best...
...West has swallowed the Hyman-Welly show, and Patricia cannot be found. In some small mountain town she is doing her stuff for the dusty miners, unconscious of a higher destiny among the gaudy longshoremen at Long Beach...