Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Mme. Marie Harel of Camembert, France, discovered the secret of preparing a certain gastronomic delicacy which her local patriotism impelled her to name "fromage Camembert" rather than "fromage à la Marie Harel." Now her self-effacement is to be rewarded by the erection of a suitable memorial tablet at the expense of the village fathers of Camembert. Gourmets heard of this fitting tribute to an obscure genius with approval, recalled that it was only a couple of years ago that a monument was erected in Strasbourg by public subscription...
...bill providing that henceforth the Mayor of Rome and the mayors of all Italian municipalities of less than 5,000 inhabitants will be superseded by officers appointed by the Central Government. Thus the electorates of the towns affected will have practically no voice in the administration of their local affairs...
...Fascisti assert that this "reform" is made necessary by the fact that Italians are frequently swayed by passion at local elections, and do not return to office such able men as the Central Government would set over them...
...South American business conducted by Armour & Co. continues in unusually large volume. About 25% of the South American output of packing products is shipped by the local subsidiaries of the big Chicago firm, and consists almost entirely of beef destined for England and the continent. Armour & Co. consequently is now an international business, and its prosperity depends upon foreign as well as purely U. S. economic conditions...
Next morning they turned up at the Capitol, silk hatted, with varicolored spats, and walked all over the bright white lines in sym-were tacked up in the great semicircles of seats, making it look metrical designs, and the diligently pointing arrows which the local Traffic Director had just painted on the pavement...