Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Chester...
John J. Cornwell, former Gover nor of West Virginia, told the National Association of Manufacturers that it would not be long before the United Mine Workers would demand nationalization of the coal mines. He asserted that they would not be satisfied with the recommendations of the so-called Fact Finding Commission, unless it also demanded nationalization of mines. At the convention of miners at Cleveland in 1919 the demand for nationalization of the coal mines was voiced formally for the first time. He declared that we are now only in a " temporary lull" of the coal war and that...
...Girl of the Golden West. This picture, by Puccini's opera, out of David Belasco's play, reveals movies prepared in the Rockies, seasoned with Mexican spurs and served with a garnishing of pistol shots. To make the result completely satisfactory, the cook (Director Edwin Carew) followed Belasco's original recipe carefully. Accordingly his play combines plausibility with excitement. For such a movie may the strange gods of Hollywood be praised...
Phillip Berolzheimer, City Chamberlain of New York, is a square set, ruddy faced, stolidly teutonic sort of man from the Middle West. He is rather a beguiling person-an instance of that rare creature, a holder of high political office who is not self seeking. He got his post with the present Democratic administration for the purpose of furthering the cause of music, specifically to organize park concerts for the people of the poorer sections of the town. This system of concerts required more money than financial authorities would spend. Berolzheimer was a rich man. He put up the money...
...West Point, N. Y June...