Word: locales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When New Dealer Maury Maverick was defeated for renomination in San Antonio, Tex. last July, the New Deal's local fences obviously needed mending. Last week Oscar Morgan Powell, 39. regional U. S. Social Security director, popular San Antonio lawyer, was called to Washington to succeed Frank Bane, resigning as Executive Director (No. 2 man) of the Social Security Board. Effective date: November 1. Almost simultaneously a special representative of the U. S. Attorney General, accompanied by two agents of the FBI, arrived in town to look into the primary in which Assistant District Attorney Paul Joseph Kilday beat...
Sudetens Scared? Meanwhile, local bigwigs of the Sudeten German Party were reported from Czechoslovakia as be ginning to show signs of fear lest they be thrust aside by Nazis from Germany, much as in Vienna the Austrian Nazis have lost all the biggest plums to German Nazis. Supplementing cables to this effect was a statement by pro-Czech Chairman George Boochever of the American-Czechoslovak Chamber of Commerce, who stepped off the Dutch liner Nieuw Amster dam in Manhattan. "In my talks with Sudeten Germans," said Mr. Boochever, "I gained the impression that they had no real wish...
...notch colored golfers (including 16 women) met for the 13th annual Negro championships of the U. S. Thirty-four played for money. 101 for fun. Some carried their own clubs, others paid white caddies $1 a round. All were extremely courteous to the lone white competitor, a local enthusiast named Charles Hlavacek who entered the tournament because he disliked to interrupt his habit of playing daily on the Palos Park course...
...last year Bridgeport Hydraulic Co., which supplies water to a large part of southwestern Connecticut, proposed to dam the Saugatuck, throwing it completely out of kilter. Local patriots rose to the defense of their river, with "Save the Saugatuck" their watchword. To defend groves threatened by the utility's axmen, women residents of the valley threatened to lash themselves to the trees. While Writers Stuart Chase and Deems Taylor protested, Fiddler Jascha Heifetz gave a "Save the Saugatuck" concert, devoted its proceeds to the cause...
From 26 daily newspapers in 1927, the Scripps-Howard chain today is down to 21. Sale of the Akron Times-Press means the dissolution of the third link in the Scripps-Howard chain in recent months. Six weeks ago, the ailing Buffalo Times was turned over to a local group headed by Editor George Lyon and Business Manager Earl L. Gaines. Month ago, the Toledo News-Bee, because of "greatly increased production costs," suspended publication, left the Toledo field to Paul Block's powerful evening Blade and unimportant morning Times...