Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...facts are that they enjoy as much or more independence than any people in Eastern Asia. Less than four per cent of the officials in the Philippines are Americans. These have been so shorn of their power that they are little more than figureheads in all matters of local government the Filipinos are in complete control. As a matter of fact the Filipino legislature has usurped a large measure of the powers assigned by law to the American executive. Lord Northcliffe pointed out that the Filipinos enjoy a greater measure of liberty than even the various American states...
...Lloyd '28, who is in charge of the drive, attributed the scarcity of the sartorial crop to local interest in the football season. It is supposed that many undergraduates were saving old hats and kindred impedimenta for the prosecution of the touchball season and for the finish of the New Haven encounter. Now that the Yale game is over, the economy program should be relaxed and the 125 canvassers on the Phillips Brooks field force will be launched anew with higher hopes for success...
...Coolidge made his official pronouncement on the election: 1) The only nation-wide election was in the contest for the House of Representatives, and there the Republicans successfully defended their majority; 2) The Senate elections were held in only a few more than one-third of the states, were local in their issues, and hence were no repudiation of the Administration: 3) Defeated Senator William M. Butler of Massachusetts would be urged to continue his duties as Chairman of the Republican National Committee; in fact, he could give it more attention, now that he had done with "that timeconsuming office...
...Senate battles were devoid of any great national questions which involved a conflict of the two major parties. Instead, they hinged on personalities and local issues. High lights...
...order to separate the sheep from the goats it announces a difference between the hobo and the lowly bum, defining the former as "merely a migratory worker who travels to participate in construction work and to help with the harvests": a bum, on the other hand, is "a local fixture in almost every instance" and usually is intensely reluctant to perform any sort of labor...