Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue of TIME, Aug. 16, under heading, Hygienic, Moral, the following: "At the city of Mantua, famed citadel of sturdy Etruscans, the local Fascist Prefect issued a well pondered order last week: 'For the remainder of the present summer all males in the Province of Mantua are forbidden to dance in public. This order has been promulgated for hygiene and moral reasons...
...June 7, 1920, Simmons contracted with E. Y. Clarke to increase the membership. As Imperial Kleagle, he was to receive $8 of the $10 admission fee, and $2 for every member added to a local Klan within six months after its organization. He agreed to pay all expenses of the central office and $75 a week to Simmons. When Clarke's system was perfected, $4 of the original fee went to the local Kleagle, $1 to the King Kleagle or state sales-manager, $0.50 to the Grand Goblin, or head of the local Klan. The remaining $4.50 went...
Plan. "Winnie" proposed that: 1) a three-cornered conference should be held between the miners, the owners, and the Government at which the broad principles of miner-owner relationships should be fixed and agreed upon by all. 2) Subsequently regional agreements should be made in each mining district, taking local conditions into account but harmonizing with the broad principles of the national agreement...
...Revolution, Russian newspapers have developed from the surreptitious pamphlets of Tzaral days into voluminously leafy formats. Russian newspaper circulation has mounted from a few thousand copies daily to several millions. Recently the editor of the Worker's and Peasant's Correspondent, the special organ of Soviet rabkors (local correspondents), sought to discover the reaction of a great prerevolutionary Russian man of letters to the new Soviet Journalism. Wrapping up a bundle of representative Soviet newspapers the editor despatched them to famed novelist-playwright Maxim Gorky,* now sojourning in Italy. Reply...
Down the ages has come a sage maxim: "Beware the Greeks...." At Athens last week, representatives of the local Merchants Board deposed and swore that during the 13-month regime of the now deposed Dictator President Pangalos (TIME, Aug. 30), Mme. Pangalos regularly imported (smuggled) silk into Greece, duty free, under diplomatic seals, and disposed of it through a modiste related to General Pangalos. He, approving his wife's peccadillo, issued a decree forbidding the importation of silk as a measure of national economy. Thus Mme. Pangalos enjoyed a total monopoly, is said to have tripled the presidential stipend...