Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Here in the South we are overpopulated but in the Northwest are great spaces where one may travel for days and hardly meet a fellow traveler. There are wide stretches of fertile land around Ninghsia which were densely populated in the days of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-221 A.D.), which are now desolate. But in various sections of this area one may find foreigners entrenched-little, independent kingdoms with their own police, schools, hospitals and wide roads of their own construction...
Water power, plus farm relief, minus Volstead modification, was the pro-Smith formula of Senator Norris of Nebraska (TIME, Nov. 5). He followed through with it strongly last week throughout the Northwest. He converted his Dry wife but earned the pious fury of the Anti-Saloon League...
...Misrepresentations"-George N. Peek, the farmers'-friend to whom was entrusted some $500,000 and the task of Democratizing the discontented agricultural vote of the Midwest and Northwest, and whose failure to do so was mercifully merged with the Brown Derby's national failure, insisted to the end that the farm vote was held for Hoover by "misrepresentations," "fraud...
...miles northwest of "The Point," where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers meet to form the mighty Ohio, and where Fort Duquesne (1754), became the nub of Pittsburgh, Brunot's Island is now within the city limits. Pittsburgh's harbor, crowded with pleasure boats, barges, steamships, extends about 30 miles along its three rivers...
Nominee Robinson, stumping in the restless Northwest, made full use of the Hoover cry of "Socialism!" and of Senator Norris' consequent declaration for Smith. He translated "Socialism" into what most of the Northwest's successful politicians call "Progressiveness." A typical Robinson excerpt: "His [Nominee Hoover's] denunciation of the proposal to make the tariff effective for agriculture as 'State Socialism' not only proves his utter lack of sympathy for the desire of farmers to enjoy prosperity, but also his very prejudiced viewpoint...