Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political power of much of the daily American press may be overexaggerated. Admitting the influence of a few crusading editors in the large cities and of a few local demagogues, it is doubtful if the average voter is swayed by his breakfasttable reading more than by red fire and hard cider. Constructive editorial opinion and advice on polities, at least those of national import, is offered by a minority of printed sheets. Dissection of a candidate or of an issue is left largely to the weekly magazines...
Practically all the nation's leading industries submitted material in the contest. Included in the list of contributors were the Ford Motors Corporation, The Cunard Steamship lines, and several local financial firms. All of the advertisements were in some form of periodical advertising...
...CRIMSON has already tried to analyze the local failure of the non-scouting plan: Information which although unsought is nevertheless difficult toward off, daily reports from metropolitan sports writers, unfounded but disturbing rumors--these are the dangers faced by Harvard when it enters into a non-scouting entente. True. Yale faces them, too--that is, with the exception of the daily battery of omniscient newspaper men and their--tell-tale cameras. But, as the News admits, "in Boston it looks different". Harvard, realizing that the situation not-only looks but is different, has very wisely decided not to enter...
Individual Chambers of Commerce participating in a National Chamber referendum are limited to a certain number of votes, which are in proportion to their local memberships. The Niagara Falls Chamber of Commerce now has six such votes. On Referendum No. 50, each of a group of 50 members particularly interested
...Insull, potentate of gas, light and politics in Chicago. Mr. Insull, held in contempt of the Senate last year for refusing to tell who received $40,000 of the $237,925 he passed out for the 1926 primary campaign, testified that the $40,000 had gone equally to two local campaigners in Cook County, not to Frank L. Smith. Asked why he subsidized politics, Mr. Insull said, "I like the game." The Committee continued pondering "the game...