Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...making it illegal to buy Federal offices and the other requiring all future officeholders to file affidavits that they have not paid or promised anyone any "consideration" for his influence in procuring their jobs?bills to do away with the sale of postoffice jobs in the South by local politicians. (Bills went to the Senate...
...permanently. I think we must go back to the 18th Amendment itself and substitute for it a simple grant of power to the Congress. That done, I should hope that the Congress and the States (through the authority of the Congress) could establish in this country, in accordance with local sentiment and desires, some such system as prevails in the Province of Quebec...
General surprise was expressed that Turkey accepted so small an oil sop. In British-mandated Irak, the exploitation of oil is expected to gladden British babbitts, while British churchmen tenderly foster the local Christians-numbering 79,000 odd, engulfed by 87,000 Jews and 2,500,000 Moslems...
...which Wyzanski was declared a winner was the final in the first of the New York Times' Current Events Contest, which will be an annual fixture in American colleges hereafter. Each of the contestants who took part won the prize of $250 and a gold medal in the local contest held in his university. Wyzanski carried off a gold medal, a preliminary prize of $250 and a final grand prize...
...local faculty committee gave each examination, and forwarded each paper to the Executive Committee. The judges who passed on the merits of the competitors were Professor A. B. Hart '80, Professor J. P. S. Tatlock '96, and Mr. R. L. O'Brien '91, editor of the Boston Herald...