Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dramatic Club of West Virginia University, proud possessor of a Cumnock Cup (1927), early this school year leased a local theater; called it The University Playhouse; presented four major plays, The Pelican, The Family Upstairs, Outward Bound, In Love with Love; attained the distinction of being the only organization of its kind possessing, by deed or lease, a playhouse; presenting therein major plays; receiving only advice from its collegiate connection; making expenses...
...House had its back up, too. The Coolidge compromise proposals, carried by Republican Leader Tilson to the House Flood Control Committee, insisted upon local contributions of sites for levees and floodways. With equal insistence, the Committee-led by Reid of Illinois, Whittington of Mississippi, Driver of Arkansas, Wilson of Louisiana-would hear of no local contributions except, perhaps, sites for the bases of levees on the main stream of the Mississippi...
...Republican leaders know that as against Gov. Smith their local tickets in the cities all the way from Boston to Chicago are going to be dangerously threatened. Naturally they are looking for a Presidential candidate who looks as if he might avert this danger...
...country within a country, the Bayou Teche country of the French who fled from Grand Pré, Canada, in 1755. They are les Acadiens. Last week, like other distinguished Frenchmen before him, Ambassador Paul Claudel went there. "Vous êtes ici parmi les Français," a serious local dignitary told him. "Nos ancêstres sont fraçais, nos sentiments sont fraçais, notre religion est fraçais." It was so surprisingly true that the good Ambassador felt himself deeply touched...
Rustication. The Dictator sternly warned party executives that they must not lose contact with the masses, nor ignore or stifle criticism, nor fail to take effective precautions in advance of looming difficulties. Each of them must spend, he said, at least one month per year in the provinces, doing local party work...