Word: locales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that out of 165 enrollees two-thirds of them are taking correspondence courses which are offered by the California State Department of Education. One-half of the enrolled body are interested in completing their high-school work. They will receive credit for work done in camp through the local high school...
...Jersey bar. Last fortnight, events in the politically throttled State of New Jersey conspired to place Frank Hague Jr., 34, on that state's highest bench (Errors & Appeals) as a lay member at $9,000 a year. The events: 1) loaded with mortgages on properties from which high local taxes had driven business, a big Jersey City bank failed (TIME, Feb. 27); 2) a county judge resigned his $15,000-a-year job to become counsel in the bank's liquidation; 3) to qualify for the county judge's $15,000 job, an Errors & Appeals lay judge...
Noteworthy it is that while the port of Danzig, established under the League of Nations at the end of the World War as a free city with a Polish customs union, has been actually ruled by the local Nazis for three years, Germany has not yet found it "convenient" formally to annex the Free City. Poland has a flourishing port now of its own at Gdynia, but the Poles have nevertheless insisted that Danzig respect the internationally guaranteed Polish rights...
Time was when such an event would have brought cursing crowds banging at the doors of the bank's red brick building, when local payrolls would have stopped, local taxes gone unpaid, a resounding local depression started. But after the 1933 Bank Holiday, the New Deal set up Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Since then banks have paid .08¼% of their average daily deposits to FDIC, thus insuring all deposits of $5,000 or less...
...statement analyzing the survey, the committee challenged President Roosevelt's contention that Democratic defeats in the general election resulted chiefly from local issues. The survey maintained that Republican gains were national, not local, and attempted to prove...