Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the Ohio Victory "clinched the nomination." The only danger they could foresee was some anti-Hoover move by Non-Candidate Dawes so upsetting as to precipitate a Coolidge stampede. If Ohio had not "clinched" the thing, said the Hooverites, then Indiana would clinch it, next week. There the local champion to be defeated is Candidate Watson, large of stomach, small of eye, a smooth political mechanic. Watsonism in Indiana was considered even harder to beat than was the Willis phenomenon in Ohio. But two things, besides the Hooverizing of Ohio, happened last week to weaken Watsonism...
Program. As a prelude to his project, Chancellor Churchill drew attention to the undoubted fact that Great Britain's productive industries & farmlands are now crushingly burdened by "the rates," that is by taxes locally imposed. These local burdens upon production, said Mr. Churchill, must hereafter be borne by the country as a whole, and especially by firms engaged in distribution, such as the oil companies...
...time of enforced inactivity to the Vagabond, although this is perhaps not unwelcome to his weary frame. For with the exception of a few scant offerings that are whispered of next week, today marks the culmination of the indoor season. So with only a faint admonition to patronize local industries, the Vagabond intends to depart to other climates. As a parasite upon intellectual life, however, he is conscious of the parries and thrusts, upon his nature, so that in self-defense, and perhaps to imbibe a final morsel of mental nourishment, he will listen to Professor Parker's discourse upon...
...Suggestions for the Revision of Federal and Local Taxation." Professor Burbank, Harvard...
...honor to the opening of the Museum and to make it an event of nation-wide rather than local importance, a loan exhibition, including pieces from many of the country's most famous collections, was temporarily installed...