Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith, in the campaign, had declared for a "compensatory tariff," to which many a Democratic Congressman heedlessly pledged himself. Tennessee's Democratic Cordell Hull of the Ways & Means Committee alone had raised a John-The-Baptist cry against Republican tariff plans. Hardly a Democratic Congressman but had some pampered local industry he would like to see "protected," ranging from women's shoes in Brooklyn to cane sugar in Louisiana...
...public funeral was held the next morning. The president of the Village Soviet, slightly conscience-stricken, allowed the local priest to officiate...
...dramatic efforts of undergraduates, but it has been impossible to produce any of these plays which have been submitted in the last few years. Most of them have had little or no merit, or if there has been merit, the plays have not been of the kind which local censors could witness unblushingly. Since the days of Professor George P. Baker, Harvard College has taken little or no notice of the drama as a field of instruction until quite recently, with the result that the quality of student dramatic literature has suffered deplorably; and yet the Dramatic Club is criticised...
...primarily a story of Harvard football the growth of the science of football as developed within the past 50 years and the development of the game in America are to be portrayed. It is the object of the editors to revive many old Harvard football personalities and to add local bits of Harvard history wherever it is fitting. Many interesting cuts and illustrations depicting old Harvard scenes will also add to the uniqueness of the book...
...majority. Connoisseurs observed that of the ten female M.P.'s the only one possessed of both youth and beauty is now the Right Honorable Jenny Lee. As a whole the results of last week's five by-elections were considered, when viewed in the light of local conditions, a great blow to the Conservatives, a good showing for Labor and a brilliant one for the Liberals. Without the yardstick of a knowledge of local conditions the result might seem quite otherwise, for Conservatives won two seats, Liberals two, and only Jenny Lee won a seat for Labor...