Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman of the Republican National Committee. There was method in the President's choice of a writer. The "Chief Clerk" gathers material for and assists the President in preparing speeches and important letters. ¶Mrs. Coolidge autographed a picture of the White House and presented it to a local Presbyterian Church, where it will be auctioned at a bazaar, and the proceeds sent to Persia for the support of missionaries. She also lit two candles in a White House window as a signal for the opening of the sale of "Christmas seals" by the National Tuberculosis Association...
Pinchot Proposals. Before the miners' committee headed by John L. Lewis, representatives of local Chambers of Commerce, state officers, and Mrs. Pinchot (who was present as a spectator, the meeting being public), the Governor made his proposals, of which the following are the chief features...
...Jonathan Trumbull who is thus honored was born in Lebanon, Conn., October 12, 1710, of stock that had been American since 1639. After an education undertaken at home and by the local pastor, he was prepared at the age of 13 for Harvard College, where he was ranked, according to the custom of the time, twenty-eight in the order of the prominence of his family among the 37 members of the class of 1727. It is interesting to observe that the young Trumbull gained social distinction so rapidly that in 1756 his son Joseph ranked second at Harvard...
...Laurence '12, that is to be used in the performance of the Dramatic Club, has the merit of not sounding too much like. By Americanizing the play to a certain extent, or rather de-Russianizing it, he has helped to bring out the fact that its appeal is not local but universal...
...place of Stanislavski's love of local color, the heavy Russian atmosphere so thick you can cut it with a knife, Evreinov tries to give us an international, a universal theatre that will appeal alike to all manners and races of men. In place of the realistic this Nicolai Nicolaevich would give us, the theatre frankly theatrical...