Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local Government inspector, J. M. Carey, approached, hat in hand, spoke in low voice to the Premier. The mine was full of poisonous gasses. Rescue work, even in gas masks, was too dangerous. The inspector had ordered that no one should go down in the mine until the fumes of explosion should be pumped away by the electric ventilators. Any other course was madness, said Inspector Carey, but the wives and families of the entrapped men were getting restless. He could not conscientiously advise the Premier to remain with his wife in that vicinity...
...Menshevik Kerensky was present in Petrograd** when there began a curiously leaderless and random series of riots and disorders among the people and local soldiery. Between March 8 and March 12 these leaderless disorders reached such a pitch that the Duma found the Tsarist authority had vanished and set up a Temporary Governing Committee which two days later became the Cabinet of Prince Lvov in which M. Kerensky was Minister of Justice. Next day representatives of the Duma obtained the abdication of the Tsar. Russians were all but stupefied that the Tsarist regime was so rotten at the core...
...July 15 the Tsar and his family were expecting to be rescued by Czechoslovak troops who were advancing toward Ekaterinburg, where the Imperial family were imprisoned. The local "People's Committee" ordered the Tsar and his family executed on July 16-one year after his abdication. Fifteen days later, too late, the Czechoslovaks took Ekaterinburg...
That desirable thing, a monopoly, last week fell into the lap of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The small but amiable Cleveland Times, its only competitor in the morning field of a city with a million citizens, died, as a local colyumist said, "after a long sickness." The Plain Dealer took over the good will and list of subscribers (about 20,000). There was no announcement of a sale, but it was not unreasonable to suppose that the monopoly was worth perhaps a, quarter of a million. President Samuel Scovil of the company that published the Times signed a wistful valedictory...
...local administration deserves praise for its consideration of the students attending college at the time of the changes, although its deference to parental and graduate opinion and control in other matters is certainly far less commendable than Harvard's indifference to what outsiders may think. Daily Princetonian...