Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor William H. Gillespie of Pittston telegraphed President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America please to come and extinguish the feuds current between mine operators, contractors and two factions of the local mine union. Two other feudists had been slaughtered, a third wounded, in the past two months...
...served five terms (1917-27) in the U. S. House of Representatives, ever faithful to La Follettism. Brother Charles S. Voight, on the other hand, happily reminded people that La Follettism once meant Pacifism, and perhaps worse; that he, Charles S. Voight, helped sell Liberty Bonds, helped the local draft board, and spoke like a patriot "even in the German language...
...remote Witwaters Rand, South Africa, the local Deputy Commissioner of Police was so stirred by despatches from London that he issued an order banning Dawn, although the film had not yet had its first public showing in England. During the week the London County Council prevented what had been billed as: "Monster First Showing Of Dawn Before 10,000 Representative Citizens At Albert Hall...
...Honolulu, one George P. Mossman made a ukulele that can be heard a half a mile away. Ukuleleman Mossman once worked for fifteen years to make a perfect violin, gave it up finally on the grounds that the violin was not a local instrument. His ukuleles since, have earned him the title of "Hawaiian Strad...
Evangelist Sunday paid little attention to the complaint made by a local minister that he had shown signs of commercialism in his recent Chicago revival. His Man Friday, Ralph T. Finley, of the local committee, announced from the Coliseum platform that all the proceeds from that revival had been pledged to the Pacific Garden Mission, where Sunday himself had been converted...