Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University Dramatic Club in connection with the Union of East and West, an organization of international importance, will present three one-act Hindu plays at Huntington Chambers Hall in Boston tomorrow afternoon and evening at 3 and 8.30 o'clock respectively. These three plays have been produced but once in this country, and but twice in the English language, having won unique successes in London and New York City...
Millions of people in the Middle West will nightly witness an artificial aurora borealis, visible fully 50 miles from its source. This will be created by sweeping lights of great aerial beacons at the five regular fields in Chicago, Iowa City, Omaha, North Platte and Cheyenne. These beacons will each have 600,000,000 candlepower. Unlike shore lighthouses, the beams of light will be thrown upwards, making three complete revolutions every minute so that pilots can easily pick them up. Smaller beacons with a visibility of only 30 miles will be placed at emergency fields every 25 miles along...
Senator Medill McCormick, cadaverous-looking publisher of the " World's Greatest Newspaper " (Chicago Tribune), will be unhappy until America is possessed of the British West Indies and is dispossessed of the Philippines. He wanted Secretary Mellon to insist that Great Britain cede the West Indies as part of the debt settlement. The Secretary, who is certainly richer and possibly as powerful as the publisher, did nothing of the kind. The publisher then proposed that the two island realms be " swapped...
...McCormick regards the West Indies as a menace to the Panama Canal and the Philippines as a military liability...
Officers of the University will enter at the north door; students will enter at the south door unless accompanied by friends, in which case they will use the west entrance...