Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Charles Wolfram of the Steuben Society of America denied that any significant conference of German-Americans had been held. A poll of local sentiment was being taken, he said, and would be summarized at the Society's national convention in September...
Second Stroke? Having obtained General Motors' Raskob for his national manager, Nominee Smith was reported to be seeking General Electric's Young-Owen D. Young, board chairman of the General Electric Company-for his local lieutenant as Democratic candidate for Governor of New York. That would be a second stroke in the effort to show the country that there are big business brains beneath the Brown Derby...
Vice Chairmen-Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, a shrewd local boss (not without aspersions on his political reputation); Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, industrious, patrician; Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, onetime (1025-27) Governor; onetime (1907-21) U. S. Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma, farmers' friend; Florence Gardiner Farley of Kansas, famed suffragette...
...Olympics started, last fortnight, it was the Detroit Free Press which proudly hailed Detroit as THE ONE centre of aviation in the U. S. But last week the Detroit News broke with its contemporary, conquered local pride, generously yielded the palm to Cleveland. Said the News, editorially: "Cleveland's foresight has brought its own reward. The landing field is being hailed as 'the world's greatest air traffic center' and sufficient facts are presented to substantiate the boast. The total volume of traffic during the last few months has exceeded that of Tempelhofer Field, Berlin...
...Telegram (Scripps-Howard), signed by a young woman named Alice Hughes,* is unique in modern metropolitan journalism. Ethically inconsistent, U. S. dailies consume tons of paper in chatting about automobiles, amusements, radio, real estate, banks, all of which advertise heavily; but they have hitherto refused to give publicity to local stores which are the biggest source of advertising revenue...