Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years the Greek colony of Tarpon Springs has had the local deep sea sponge diving industry to itself. Americans were not interested. Then came the immigration quota law. New recruits from Greece fell off. The new generation of native-born Greeks would not fill up the ranks. By dint of much bickering with government officials an occasional batch of 50 Greek divers would be admitted temporarily, for six months...
...memory of the dead woman, the other in childbed, and all the horrors of starvation he had seen. Casual U. S. readers supposed this meant that Edward of Wales would eschew gayety for some weeks. But Englishmen are not like that. With duty done, H. R. H. hopped a local train for Melton Mowbray, his favorite hunting centre. After a sound night's sleep he seemed his cheerful self again, sprang to horse, and galloped off with many another after a frightened little red fox. The horse fell and sprained a foreleg, but Edward of Wales kept his seat...
Technically all political parties have now been suppressed, by royal decree, but in fact the authorities have concentrated on dispersing the Croat Peasant party, which has demanded for Croatia-Dalmatia local autonomy and the status of a dominion (similar to Canada) under the Crown at Belgrade. It was the leader of this party, Stefan Raditch, who was assassinated in the parliamentary chamber last summer. The assassin, Deputy Punica Ratchitch, an ardent supporter of General Zivkovitch, has not yet been brought to trial...
...Carlisle. Many a European, too, saw the 101 Ranch Show, doubtless gained from it the impression that travelers in the western portion of the U. S. trembled before the tomahawk and the six-shooter. Begun informally, casually, when the Millers permitted some of their cowboys to perform at a local fair, the 101 Ranch Show grew into a circus that netted the Millers a million dollars a year. Sideshows it had, and freaks, and many a Bearded Lady and Human Skeleton vacationed during the winter in elegant quarters on the Millers' luxurious ranch at Marland, Okla...
...First, that my methods of handling situations dealing with interests of private donors* political interests, 'local' interests and alumnae interests are not consistent with policies which the Board of Regents deems wise...