Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cover, by Batchelder, will unquestionably cause enormous confusion at local news stands, and the worst of it is that this error will not be immediately rectified by consulting the inside matter. The advertisements are after Saks-Fifth-Avenue and Brooks in their Ritziest moments, and if there is a little gents-room language somewhere on the page it will escape the eye of all but the most inquiring. Blackburn's Raymond ad and the Oh-so-French perfumery exhibit (pardon fumes of exquisite women) of Mr. Breck are after this manner...
...last five years, only three may be considered by the nature of their present employment as essentially lost to the service of public health. The other 99 all have positions of more or less considerable importance, varying from positions in charge of important activities to the duties of local health officer. The majority are in definite charge of important divisions of health work in 27 countries throughout the world. There is also a representative in an important position in the League of Nations...
Thereupon Mr. Loring proposed to increase the capitalization of the B. M. C. Durfee Trust Co. of Fall River and have it absorb two other local banks, the Massasoit-Pocasset National and the Metacomet National. Last week directors of the three institutions agreed to accept Mr. Loring's plans, which of course are also Mr. Liggett...
...week was to reduce wages. The New Bedford Silk Mills cut pay by 25%, and at once 140 employes walked out. Twenty-seven cotton mills announced 10% pay cuts for the beginning of this past week and 2,571 mill hands immediately voted to go on strike. The three local newspapers are condemning both wage reductions and strike...
...drama than when he is setting forth some tremendous generalization upon Life. The first audience at Lazarus Laughed was properly impressed with the repetitive and imposing spectacle which the Pasadena Players (amateur) made of their production. The play was given in the Pasadena Community Playhouse, a theatre endowed by local patrons for the highly able efforts of the Pasadena Players. The mechanics of the production were gigantic; there were vast numbers of actors, 400 costumes and 300 masks of all kinds. Irving Pichel, deep-voiced and deliberate, made a splendid Lazarus. Gilmor Brown, who organized the Pasadena Players some...