Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issues more or less local from a political standpoint may yet develop. One of them is farm legislation. The difficulty is that it is not yet obvious just what sort of legislation the farmers want or will be satisfied with, although it is clear enough that the result they want is better crop prices. The other issue is an anti-lynching bill. If this bill comes up in the Senate, the Southerners will undertake a filibuster, an attempt may be made to supply cloture (limit the debate), and the irreconcilables may join the regular Republicans in the cloture move...
...Prince. At Birmingham, most celebrated of British industrial centres, Edward of Wales visited the local Trade Fair and stepped upon a pair of scales to oblige their maker. The pointer spun, stopped at 137 pounds, to the satisfaction of the Prince who has tapered off his meat lately, lest he grow fat, and his drink, lest his tendency to nervousness increase. He is said to be "setting the fashion for modest four-course dinners...
...like award went to Joseph Richards Co., Inc., Manhattan agency, for the best local campaign of a manufacturer. They handled the Tide Water Oil Sales Corporation's campaign for "Tydol...
...George, as always, compromised with his detractors. Instead of insisting that his form of "nationalization" should be presented to Parliament with the idea of having it made applicable to all land, he accepted a modified wording: "that land shall be held under a variety of tenures to meet different local conditions...
Died. Mrs. Gilbert B. Mathewson, 70, mother of the late Christopher Mathewson, famed baseball pitcher. She was president of the local W. C. T. U. in the village of Factoryville, Pa.; at Factoryville...