Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Financial Situation of the Middle West" will be discussed by Professor O. M. W. Sprague '94 of the Business School at a dinner held under the auspices of the Iowa Club at the Colonial Club on Wednesday, May 2, at 6 o'clock...
...drought, which has also affected most of the Greater Antilles, is so great that there is not even enough water on the islands for cattle, and the cattle industry is vanishing. Prohibition spoiled the remaining occupations of the Virgins-the rum trade and the resupplying of ships. Rival West Indian ports are making the most of the fact that St. Thomas is dry to attract ships to their ports for refueling. So whereas once 90 ships called every month at St. Thomas, it is a rare month now when 25 vessels put in. The Colonial Council was very emphatic...
Leonidas C. Dyer, Representative from Missouri, whose AntiLynching bill was talked to death in the last session of Congress, is to make a tour of the West speaking in behalf of his bill. He hopes to talk it to passage in the next Congress. His speaking itinerary includes 17 cities, and his expenses will be paid by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Meanwhile an equivalent of his bill was passed with only one dissenting vote by the Pennsylvania House of Representatives...
...Commission to prepare tentative plans for consolidating the railroads. This was done, and in August, 1921, a plan for uniting the roads into 19 systems was announced. Then the Commission set about comparing notes with the railroads and getting their suggestions on consolidation. Hearings were held for the railways west of the Mississippi and for the railways south of the Ohio. On May 16 hearings will be opened at Washington for the railroads of the north and east. By Fall the final plan of the Commission should be ready...
...WEST VIRGINIA: The House of Delegates passed a bill reducing the Governor's salary from $10,000 to $8,000. The $5,000 salaries of other state officials will be reduced...