Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mussolini has tried by brute force to Italianize these people by suppressing the local newspapers and forbidding the teaching of German in the schools. He has forced Austrian families to change their surnames, if there was any Italian blood in the stock. He has done these things in spite of the fact that in 1922 he and the King of Italy insured the people of Tyrol that they might live unoppressed. His actions prove the extent to which Wilson's ideals have been adapted by nations only in so far as they coincided with the individual country's advantage. When...
...good clean villainy. Miss Brent, playing a girl reeking with refinement for the first part of the picture, redeems herself by going slightly but uncontrollably native in the latter half. Which brings us to a point we have been trying to reach for some time--to wit: the locale is the indefinite tropics and there are many sinister references to "what this country will do to a decent woman." The local color includes a good deal of rain, one Chinese boy inserted presumably for comic interest, and many dark squat bottles lying around in handy places...
...bulls of Mr. Hearst. Not since the ascendency of Solomon Solis Carvalho in 1917 had a Hearstling been given such wide powers. Col. Knox is a believer in tabloid journalism. Also he is expected to tour the U. S. with an eye to making the Hearst dailies more intensely local, less standardized...
Other speakers pointed out that corporations should contribute to solve the social problems which they create in local communities. Said Colonel William Cooper Procter, President of Procter & Gamble, Ivory Soap makers, chairman of the conference: "Corporate gifts to community chests should be . . . among the legitimate expenditures of the corporation...
...history of Community Chests is lengthy, evolutionary, and increasingly notable. In 320 U. S. cities, Community Chests now function; the Association of Community Chests and Councils exists merely as a clearing house to inform communities how they may put Community Chests into effect in a purely local connection. Philadelphia is the largest U. S. city to have a Community Chest; in Cleveland, (which in 1913 organized a federation for charity and philanthropy generally regarded as the beginning of the modern Community Chest movement), Denver, Detroit and elsewhere they work with eminent success. Cincinnati's Community Chest, organized as such...