Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Australian ports similar strikes were called by local meetings, and there the situation was more serious. It was reported that all shipping at Melbourne and Sydney was tied...
...bone. For the present year, the appropriation is $341,000,000, of which $262,000,000 is strictly military, $70,000,000 is for rivers and harbors and nearly $9,000,000 for the Panama Canal. If the cut comes out of Rivers and Harbors, many hankerers after local improvements must go unsatisfied. If it comes out of the strictly military expenses, the Senate Military Affairs Committee is likely to object. Said Senator Wadsworth, Chairman (Republican of N. Y.) : "A further reduction would be suicide"; said Senator Fletcher of Florida, ranking Democrat : "There is such a thing as going...
...dared they? How could they hope to succeed in founding a national movement by picking a local politician for its head? Being able men, they doubtless had their reasons...
...conjecture what their reasons were: Here is this young Assemblyman, F. Trubee Davison. He is not of the ordinary run of local politician. No indeed. He is in politics more after the old British fashion?by which a distinguished family sends one of its sons into public life. What is more, he is able. He ought to be. Look at his father...
Salzburg hoteliers ran out of goats' cheese, black bread and beds. Celebrated visitors, unable to procure respectable lodgings or to endure the hard cots and sunburnt goitres of the local peasantry, appealed for aid to Herr Reinhardt...