Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Federation of Labor will next month contain an item for 36,158 (more or less) copies of a letter by President William Green. For he addressed an epistle to 110 national and international unions, 1,000 city central labor bodies, 48 state federations of labor and 35,000 local unions. It bore the superscription...
...most deeply engages the author's mind and heart. A source of serious concern to him is the ability of the House of Representatives by its revenue powers, of the Senate by its treaty powers, of the Supreme Court in judicial review, and of the several states by independent local action, to delay or nullify careful negotiations with the rest of the human race. The author's solicitude, here dispassionate, doubtless reflects the chagrin of President Wilson's friend and closest Cabinet associate at the fate of the Versailles Treaty. He pleads for constitutional adequacy to aid in preventing another...
...reported "the presence of about 400 tons of available gold in the 6,000 square miles of territory in the Aldan River District." Koreans, Japanese and Chinese, who have been flocking to this remote and inaccessible part of Siberia, were ordered to depart within one month by the local Soviet. Henceforth only Russians will be allowed to "work" the region, and it is alleged that they will be forced to exchange all gold mined for Soviet currency at a rate of 2½ chervonetz* ($14) an ounce. (Refined gold is worth $20 an ounce...
Feng, having suffered a severe repulse by the Li forces, issued a proclamation asking for peace on terms highly advantageous to Li. While the ensuing parley was under way, the Feng troops received reinforcements, crept up upon Tientsin, overwhelmed the garrison, and forced General Li to flee to the local Japanese concession in a, motor...
Just as the beet and the cane furnish the raw material for candy, so the raw material of the small-town newspaper is names, names, names. The more local names the local editor can cram into his columns, the more money he makes. The well known sources of this raw material are "social functions," "church and club activities," departures from and returns to town, etc. Every local editor draws upon them as fast as typewriters...