Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stalin also promised the peasants equal representation with the town proletariat. At present, the peasants elect one representative to the local Soviet for every 40,000 inhabitants, while the cities elect one for every 25,000. Moreover, the peasants are eligible only for local office and are debarred from holding any of the higher positions. All this is to be changed and peasants, according to the authoritative word of Stalin, will in the future be eligible to hold the highest executive positions...
From London came a report that the Bulgarian government had captured dispatches from Moscow to local communists, establishing beyond doubt that the Third Internationale had planned the revolt-that the documents had been exhibited to the representatives of the powers as proof of a need for more Bulgarian troops...
...Atlantic and Caribbean, there is a reading room. On its tables are The New York Times Boston Transcript, Norfolk Virginian Pilot and last, but by no means least, TIME. Reading TIME saves time and adds to the efficiency of a marine. . . . We use the daily newspapers for local gosup, and TIME for personal information Louis ESTELL FAGAN...
...Religion in Cambridge" receives due attention. Under the guise of inviting us to Satanism and its forbidden fruits, the writer gets in some stout work in behalf of the Anglo-Catholic position in matters ecclesiastical, and conveys certain, prosy information as to the local status of that denomination, which might adorn any church year book. Appleton Chapel is dismissed as a "sad memorial, to the dry bones of New England Liberalism." So be it. I preach there occasionally. Who am I to question it? But I can subscribe whole heartedly to the statement that "the most deeply religious element...
...Time", the national news weekly, in its last issue reprinted the cover design of the Lampoon which had offended local police authorities, and also excerpts of matter which had been considered obscene, yet no action has been taken in this case. Newsstands about the Square reported yesterday that all copies of "Time" had been sold, but this sale was not attributed to the Lampoon article...