Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...EDITOR OF LOS ANGELES RECORD I ASK CORRECTION OF STATEMENT IN SOUTHEAST CORNER OF PAGE THIRTY AUGUST FIFTH ISSUE THAT QUOTE LOCAL NEWSPAPER LONG FOES OF LABOR UNIONISM CONTINUED TO SUPPRESS NEWS UNQUOTE STOP WHILE AMBIGUOUS THIS EVIDENTLY WAS MEANT TO AND WOULD BE READ AS INCLUDING ALL NEWSPAPERS STOP LOS ANGELES RECORD MOST INFLUENTIAL OF ALL SIX ENGLISH DAILIES HAS NEVER BEEN QUOTE FOE OF LABOR UNIONS UNQUOTE AS ANY LABOR LEADER CAN TELL YOU STOP LIKEWISE IT HAS NOT SUPPRESSED NEWS OF EQUITY STRUGGLE BUT HAS FULLY PROMINENTLY AND FEARLESSLY PRESENTED NEWS OF BOTH SIDES STOP ASK FRANK...
...permanent presidential retreat. He detailed the contributions to its construction: 1) from Virginia, roads to the camp; 2) from the Marine Corps, "Labor in erecting cabins and tents, in providing water supply, cutting brush;" 3 ) from the telephone and electric light companies, "connections without charge;" 4) from local residents, "labor on fine trails;" 5) from the U. S. Army engineers, road work "as one of its summer exercises:" ]6) from himself, 164 acres of land, "the purchase of building materials, etc. . . . some labor costs...
...Prison congestion worried State as well as U. S. executives. The New York World made a survey of the 22 largest prisons in the U. S. outside New York, received reports that 15 of them were "dangerously overcrowded." The percentage of population over capacity in important local prisons was: Indiana State Prison, 79%; Eastern Penitentiary, Pennsylvania, 77%; Nebraska State Penitentiary, 61%; Missouri State Prison, 42%; Rhode Island State Penitentiary, 31%; Kentucky State Prison, 31%; Maryland State Prison...
...learned sound banking and business principles at Harvard, the course of modern Chinese history would have run in a profoundly different rut. In 1922 the Nationalists, who have since conquered all China, were an insignificant group of zealots dominating only the region of Canton. On an income from local taxes of only one million dollars per month they could not finance a China-conquering expedition. Two years later young T. V. Soong was called to the Nationalist Finance Ministry...
...Secretary of the Treasury, since 1909 president of New York's Consolidated Gas Co., is especially alert against gas asphyxiation among his customers and generally interested in overcoming suffocation from any cause. Last week, after a gas company superintendent had successfully resuscitated a man unconscious 383 hours in a local hospital, Mr. Cortelyou donated the city a dozen resuscitators, costing $3,000 each...