Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christmas, Governor Smith of New York State launched an investigation of President Connolly's sewer system (TIME, Jan. 2). The system consisted, allegedly, in President Connolly's appointment of a special city engineer who specified a certain type of lock-joint pipe for Queens sewers. The sole local agent for the required pipe was President Connolly's good friend, one John M. Phillips. Monopolist Phillips sat back in his office swigging milk and whiskey, dictating pipe prices to contractors, growing rich. Borough President Connolly did not grow any poorer...
Debarking at Southampton, Mr. and Mrs. Ford were met by local Mayor Mrs. L. M. Welch who had come to urge that the Motor Man should build a factory on a site which he already owns in Southampton...
...contention between the Administration and Congress-Tax Reduction, Muscle Shoals, Farm Relief-appeared more contentious than ever and the prospect of three vetoes increased. Also, the House passed a far smaller Navy bill than the Administration had asked. Also, the Senate passed a Flood Control measure in which local contributions, as urged by the President, were only "recognized in principle," not levied in fact...
...Recognition of the principle of local contribution to the cost (as insisted by President Coolidge) but, since the flooded States have already paid some 300 millions to salvage themselves, no local levy...
...stars, are always happening along. They are new only from man's point of view, having existed long years before attaining the brightness which makes them visible through a telescope. But no other new star has behaved like Nova Pictoris. It may be that a terrific local explosion has occurred in part of the nebula making this area suddenly brilliant with a luminosity of its own, giving it the appearance of another star. Perhaps some dark invisible star has caromed into the gaseous globe, setting up a fiery fever at the place of injury. Or it may even...