Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sitting where they could feel the influence of local disturbances and color, a Naval Committee last week went through the usual formality of investigating a disaster after it has happened. At Dover, N. J., where the Naval Arsenal suddenly exploded three weeks ago when struck by lightning (TIME, July 19), the committee last week decided that God's act was unavertable...
...have been near Canton at the hour of the shooting, but who eluded detention before Canton's sleuths could pin direct suspicion upon him. Canton's citizenry, abashed by their own past political indifference and by a week of unproductive sleuthing, forced the suspension of their local police chief, Seranus Lengel, who had been one of Mellett's prominent targets. There was even talk of changing Canton's form of city government. Canton's leading citizen, Manufacturer H. H. ("Roller Bearings") Timken, fumed over the unemotional attitude of the Citizens' Cleanup Committee, vowing...
...murderers remained at large and newsgatherers had nothing better to do than enlarge upon Jumbo Crowley and the Canton "Jungle," for local color. Jungle gangsters had their heads together, muttering. Jungle women were pawning their trinkets and leaving town, shrewd rats leaving a wreck...
...year and more the Chamber has demonstrated its disinclination and its incapacity to legislate. Almost every possible program for saving the franc has been presented to it, and has been rejected on grounds of petty local politics. The Deputies have refused to vote adequate taxes, or to ratify either the Franco-British or the Franco-U. S. debt settlements. Amid this carnival, this debauch of legislative folly, the franc has lost two-thirds of its value within a year...
...Local circulation of names varies. In New York Cohen is second to Smith, Schwartz fifth. In Chicago Johnson is ahead of Smith and Anderson third. Boston's first five are Smith, Sullivan, Brown, Johnson, Murphy. Meyer is third in Cincinnati...