Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge discovered an uninvited guest in the White Court grounds who had escaped the vigilance of the triple guard-policemen, secret service men, Marines. The President called his Secret Service men; they called the local fire department, which removed the trespasser from a high tree, squealing. He was identified by his collar as a monkey belonging to a retired shoe manufacturer dwelling nearby...
...large number of Prohibition cases in arrears before the courts. The effort was made. Mail)7 convictions resulted. Now the result is being felt. The Federal prisons at Atlanta, Leavenworth and McNeill's Island are badly overcrowded. Some prisoners have been "boarded" by the Federal Government in local jails-an expensive business for the Government. In order to reduce the crowding, the board of paroles has been ordered to expedite its work. Ordinarily a bootlegger sentenced to a year in jail cannot get out on parole under six months. Now many are being paroled in four months...
There is disruption in the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, internal dissension arising out of dissatisfaction of the national officers of the Klan with the local officers...
...public prints each individually boasting of his marvelous powers and miraculous cures. But the Texas State Medical Association created a committee to devise dignified and effective means for advertising for the great body of allopathic physicians. This committee passed resolutions urging county Medical Associations 1) to publish advertisements in local papers of educational nature advising people how to get proper treatment for diseases and avoid false cures, and 2) to publish from time to time in these papers lists of the members of the county Medical Associations, so that the public might know what doctors in their opinion were properly...
...General" Ben McKenzie, local wit and humorist, dressed in a blue seersucker suit, peered down his nose and through his glasses perched thereon and in a high, rasping, querulous voice began the fight. The Court seemed in considerable doubt as to what he was driving at. But when he sneered at the laws in the "great metropolitan City of New York" and in "the great white city of the Northwest," Lawyer Malone said: "We object. ... I do not consider further allusion to the geographical parts of the country as particularly necessary. . . . We are here rightfully as American citizens...