Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came luncheon, provided on the scale of a local fiesta. Peasants and the local gentry mingled. President Calles, beamingly in his element, led hearty singing of mellow Spanish songs. What did the U. S. guests think...
...various local insurrections were not concerted, although they sprang up coincidentally. The peasantry revolted against extortionate tax gathering by armed Soviet agents; but city-insurrectionists rose because of oppressive government by the local Soviets (committees...
Throughout Hungary this outburst of Jew-jostling was repeated, last week, by students at a dozen intermediate schools and two colleges. In Pecs (Peetsh), some Jewish undergraduates of the local college were driven to the extremity of barricading themselves and standing off their tormentors with threats to employ firearms. What could cause so national an outburst of student folly...
...still seated separately, and we do not want to depart from the law today!" The rabbis agreed with him. They decided to establish a national board of Jewish education to train children of the Orthodox in Hebrew knowledge and Jewish religion. Already many U. S. cities have independent, uncorrelated local boards of Jewish education, distinct from temple religious schools...
...Frank Norris, fundamentalist extraordinary, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Tex., returned to national news dispatches last week by a means not even hinted at in his favorite Genesis. Save for local items, Dr. Norris had been out of print since a year ago last summer when he shot and killed one Dexter E. Chipps while the latter was calling on him (TIME, July...