Word: locales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home town of Wayland, flayed him for personally trying only 19 cases in eight years, for dismissing without prosecution 3,396 cases, including a male degenerate's confessed sex crime against a 12-year-old girl. With ample financial support to fight Mr. Bishop's local machine, Bob Bradford was given a better-than-even chance of winning, and Republican nomination in Middlesex is tantamount to election...
...Eliot-a Democrat since, aged 10, he alone voted for Woodrow Wilson in a class poll-is opposed by three Irishmen, in a heavily Irish district. His chance-rated even by local experts-lies in the Irish vote's splitting. Last week one of his opponents, Carroll Lehane, crashed an Eliot rally in Brighton. Instead of letting Mr. Lehane be bum's-rushed out. Candidate Eliot, trained to sportsmanship on the playing fields of Cambridge, invited him to speak. If nominated, Tom Eliot's harder fight will come in November, against crafty old Republican Robert Luce...
Chicago-Indications that the publishers of Ken are beginning to learn at first hand the power of CIO unions came this week as they reached an agreement with the local 24 of the United Office & Professional Workers...
...held in Baltimore next May. Inveterate resolvers, even when meeting in smaller groups, the Federationists, led by their doe-eyed national president, Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober last week resolved: 1) to encourage the singing of opera in the English language (see above), 2) to support the development of small local opera companies throughout the U. S., 3) to pay more attention to music in the rural schools, 4) to help the growth of orchestral music 5) to encourage mass singing, 6) to further the observance of American Music Year (1938). "At a time when the whole world the seems...
...cities. The deal was made and on the basis of these two-station broadcasts MBS was formed in September of that year. WOR and WGN organized on a 50-50 basis, agreed to seek advertisers who wanted to use both stations, not to interfere with each other's local programs. As a network, MBS was to have no corporate profit. Officers were to be paid only by the station for which they worked...