Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stood up in an automobile and said he was glad to be there. He told his five thousand or so welcomers how busy he had been, governing New York-an amiable, spontaneous yet perfunctory speech until the last sentence. Then, slily combining his oldtime East Side accent with the local vernacular, he said: "I hope to meet yez-all personally before I leave." The North Carolinans cheered...
Sedulously dodging large functions, sticking closely to the golf course, the Candidate did find time to drop in at the local firehouse. "Hello, boys. What's the chance of a fire?" he said, and told them he was a volunteer fireman himself, at home. He also entered a bakery to pay compliments on a cake. The local press did not overlook these matters...
...Local magistrates at Winnipeg recently warned weapon-toters to expect stiffer sentences. Last week one Herbert Weston and one Andrew Wood, both convicted of "toting," were sentenced to "two years imprisonment and to receive six lashes from a heavy whip...
...drug will help all of the people all of the time. Mothersill's Seasick Remedy guaranteed "in every case" is sometimes efficacious; it contains, as its advertisement asserts, "no cocain;" instead it has 45 per cent chlorbutanol, a cocain substitute often used as a local anesthetic. Wise ones, when seasick, will consult a doctor...
...least six good reasons exist for private capital to build toll bridges: 1) motor travelers are willing to pay tolls to shorten their journeys; 2) local authorities derive a certain, if trifling, indirect income; 3) government authorities are often too lethargic to construct needed bridges; 4) engineering friends of private capitalists, rather than the engineering friends of officeholders get the construction jobs and profits; 5) sale of bridge bonds and stocks provides work and profits for banking houses; 6) bridge bonds and stocks are investment opportunities for people with idle money...