Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith spent the week concentrating on the first premise of a Democratic victory, New York State. Busiest of all, National Democratic Chairman Raskob, fourth of the Big Four, traveled from Manhattan to the Midwest, to attend Nominee Robinson's notification, to see the farmers for himself, to lubricate local machinery, to arrange Nominee Smith's autumn itinerary. Mr. Raskob referred repeatedly to "the goods" he had to "sell" and what good goods they were...
...Olathe, Kan., Probate Judge George W. Fulmer, a 60-year-old official with one arm, married Elizabeth Conn, the 16-year-old daughter of an iceman, to one William Washburn, 21. This done, E. A. Conn, local iceman and father to Elizabeth, swirled into Probate Fulmer's office and beat the smiling, crippled, bewildered old fellow within an inch of his life...
Observers feared lest this local engagement prove part of a Soviet project to coerce the chieftains of Inner Mongolia and North Eastern Manchuria into federating themselves with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics ("Russia...
Cinemactress Bebe Daniels flew from Hollywood to Hadley Field, New Brunswick, N. J. At every stop the local papers noted her. Finally she left her purse in the taxicab which carried her the 30 miles from Hadley Field to Manhattan. The purse contained $168 and feminine gimcracks. Whether or not Miss Daniels left the purse deliberately, the ensuing publicity was worth many, many times $168. And the taxidriver returned the money...
Time. New York Telephone Co. subscribers bought time, last week, at the rate of 5? a unit. They could lift the receiver, call Meridian 1212 and demand the correct time, paying the regular charge for a local call. On the first day of the new service, 10,246 subscribers paid $512.30 for the time...