Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...control the convention. He was the man who led the fight against acceptance of the terms on which the five months' strike of last year was terminated. Opposed to him was Lewis, the big boss, who barely defeated him then. It is said that Lewis, " the best poker face West of the Hudson," had tears in his eyes when the announcement of the final vote was read, showing that Cappellini was beaten. But at this convention Cappellini was back, President-elect of the largest District in the anthracite group. What might not happen...
...morning before he left for the West, President Harding considered the cases of 158 Federal prisoners and granted 44 commutations of sentence...
Baseball in the Middle West ended with the University of Michigan undefeated Conference Champions. The standing...
Perhaps your grandfather went West with the covered wagons-or round the Horn to California in '49. Perhaps he didn't. At any rate, if you're in New York in August, here's something you shouldn't miss...
...such remonstrances as that of Dr. Goodnow have not been successful in restraining the witch hunters. The Adjutant of the American Legion in Indiana has had Muzzey's An American History and West's A History of the American People removed from the schools of that state upon the ground that the books failed to pay proper regard to the acts of Americans during the Revolution. The learned Adjutant based his objections upon reports by the Chairman of the Committee on Patriotic Education of the Sons of the American Revolution. He had apparently not examined the offending volume...