Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...social columns of our local morning newspaper, I invariably read that, at Mrs. So-and-so's bridge party, there were six tables "in play...
...when the General reached Manila he soon discovered that he would be lucky if he could serve a short term without getting his foot painfully caught in the complicated traps of the island politicians. His predecessor's liberal application of the Jones Act (which promised eventual independence) had bred local corruption so crude it was almost laughable and, according to some, a state approaching governmental chaos. Characteristically, the General said nothing, but began, by long hours of toil, to change all that. A visitor noting in his library stacks of weighty tomes concerning the Islands asked when he intended...
Gradually authority asserted itself. Gradually, the General's personal likeableness was felt. Politicians Quezon and Osmena, furious because of the diminished power of their rhetoric, could not prevent it. So they began to flood the cables with anti-Wood gossip. They made local scenes which in far off Washington looked bad. They came personally to Congress with petitions railing against the General. Two years ago President Coolidge told them it was useless, told them in effect that it was impossible for them to make any sober individual in Washington believe that Governor General Wood was a tyrant, knave or fool...
...vast majority of the House Democrats and Republicans disfavor reapportionment? Briefly, for as many different local reasons as there were Congressmen against the bill. Two typical reasons...
...fact that Mr. Brown was never molested or restrained by the local British authorities is allegedly accounted for by his very large contributions to all the local charities. Last week many flags in the vicinity were flown at half mast in his honor. Allegedly, he realized that he might some day be restrained as insane and therefore kept steam up at all times, ready for instant escape. His wealthy Manhattan cousins, R.F. and W.B. Cutting, long ago evolved a formula for dealing with pressmen, declared themselves "ignorant of Mr. Brown's plans...