Word: locales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This solution, it was reported, will divide Yugoslavia into three autonomous provinces: 1) the Dalmatian coast, Croatia in the northwest; 2) central Bosnia, where dwell a confusion of Moslem, Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Serbs and Croats; 3) southeastern Serbia. Each section will have separate self-governing administrations for local affairs; the three provinces will remain united by a common throne and a central Government which retains ultimate control of finances, defense, foreign relations. Creation of provincial diets, because of constitutional limitations, must wait until King Peter comes of age. It was a nice settlement; big question mark was whether...
...Local 381 of the Taxicab Drivers of America struck a week ago last Friday against the Yellow Cab Company in order to get "a family wage of a mere $15 for a 10 hour day." The Union under President Stephen A. Dunlevy charges that President Magann of the taxi company makes enough profit out of the company after paying his 90 drivers $12.60 a week to run a stable of racing horses...
...Small local stations have greater appeal to low-income groups than to higher earning brackets. Likely reasons: the poor listener likes to hear of advertisers with whom he is familiar; foreign born like local programs in their own language; farmers like to hear folksy shows, Bible-hours that never get on the chains...
Author of most of the Telegram's weather stories is a thin, sharp-featured little man named Harry Allen Smith.* Raised in Huntington, Ind., he quit school after the eighth grade to work as a proofreader on the local paper, rose to write funeral notices, sports, a column. Smith saw the U. S. as an itinerant reporter, worked five years for United Press as a feature writer, landed on the Telegram three years ago. He once began an interview with Cinemactress Simone Simon thus: "Your reporter walked straight up to her, without so much as a hello, and tickled...
...pretty little Santa Rosa, Calif, last week, 8,000 fun-loving rustics sat in the grandstand of the Sonoma County Fairgrounds, watched 46 local jalopies rattling round & round the trotting track in a 100-mile "Tin Lizzie Derby...