Word: local
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glimpse of him in passing. At San Juan he had three notable experiences. The first was an orderly and properly policed landing. The propensities of crowds on three continents to smash police lines wherever formed around a Lindbergh terminal was checked in Porto Rico. Six hundred native police, local militia, and the 68th U. S. Infantry suppressed native enthusiasm. Lindbergh was not swamped on disembarkation by crazy students, girls detailed to kiss him, autograph hunters, well wishers, drunks, people. The second experience was an unexpected message from the local Congress requesting in no mild terms freedom for Porto Rico. Apparently...
Bogota. Over the wilderness ranges of the Cordilleras curved the Spirit of St. Louis, first flying ship to risk a passage above the cloudy peaks. As he disembarked, Senorita Olga Noguera Davila, elected queen of local students, joined the tiny group of the world's women who have kissed Col. Lindbergh. Parades. Speeches. By Presidential decree he was presented with the Cross o) Boyaca, highest military award of the Colombian government, tenth ever bestowed...
...backbone of most of these clubs' existences is local racing. From little dinghys raced by children all the way to the largest schooner yachts in the cult of sailing speed is worshipped. Many, particularly inland clubs, race roaring motor boats. The chief international races are between the famed 6 metre sailboats (about 35 feet on deck) for which British boats visit various foreign clubs including U. S. and U. S. boats are carried across the seas to race in foreign waters. This summer there will be a trans-pacific race to Honolulu. The King and Queen of Spain have offered...
True, all is not tranquil within Republican ranks. Hoover, although the popular choice, and backed by skillful politicians, is essentially a party man. Lowden's willingness not to interfere in favorite son movements indicates an attempt to draw votes from Hoover by these local choices, votes that may later be given to Dawes or Lowden. Young Mr. Roosevelt with his attacks on Smith is doing much to damage Republican prestige. Disrupting are Borah's attempts to force a plank on Prohibition. But on the whole, the Republicans' present prosperous administration gives them an inestimable advantage. And with the parties representing...
Dean Nichols cites as examples of the CRIMSON'S new-found professional spirit, a policy for "live news" and a tendency to promoting "stinks"--Which he defines as "any controversy the reverberations of which should be more than of local and momentary importance." He also mentions that gradually editors of the Harvard paper have taken up jobs as cub reporters on metropolitan dailies during the summer or have worked as college correspondents for these same papers, thus further bringing to the CRIMSON the professional standpoint...