Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enterprising foes of the Court had drawn up a list of 28 Senators who would be opposed to the Court without reservations. Meanwhile Senator Moses, Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee, was pressing the President to speak on agriculture and on industrial prosperity for the Congressional elections in the West...
...allowed to pay his expenses on the Leviathan's trial trip. He is expected to join Secretary of War Weeks on a tour of the Eastern Army posts in August. Already he has investigated the proposed new naval base at Alameda, Calif., reclamation projects in the West, and the needs of the Canal Zone in fortifications...
...West Point graduated 261 cadets to become second lieutenants in the Army. General Pershing presented the diplomas and told the class: " You have a rare opportunity and a sacred obligation." Leading the class was F. R. Johnson, of Tacoma. Although he is an inch under the prescribed minimum height, he was admitted to the Academy on probation and led his class for four years, amassing 2,608 out of a possible 2,770 points. Thirteen of the graduates had served in the regular Army before entering the Academy; two were Filipinos; one was from Hawaii...
...principal Soviet weapon throughout the negotiations was the threat of anti-British propaganda in the Near and Middle West; Curzon's weapon was the threat to terminate the Trade Agreement, upon which the Soviet places great reliance...
Biggest and Best Rodeo - The West a-Hootin' August and New York, we understand, will see one of the biggest and best exhibitions of a certain Americant art that has been displayed so far-an art as completely and typically American as the first Olympic Games were Greek. We refer to bull-dogging, bronco-busting, roping et al. The Frontier may have passed but the sports of the Frontier survive. Sans six-guns, perhaps; sans Deadwood Dick's Last Chance Saloon and a picturesque if sanguinary revolver-practice; but with the spirit of that Frontier alive...