Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pink (1936), as Eddie Cantor's stooge. As freakish, though not so foolish, as his soubriquet, Parkyakarkus is really Harry Einstein, a onetime Boston advertising writer who, when his friends found his Greek dialect monologs at parties hilariously funny, decided to merchandise his specialty. Response to a few local broadcasts encouraged him to apply for a spot on the nationwide radio hour of Funnyman Cantor, whom he had met socially. From radio, he went to Hollywood. "Parkyakarkus" is an adaptation of the informal invitation with which Dr. Einstein habitually greeted callers at his office during his business career...
...Philadelphia, Rev. John Robbins Hart of midcity St. Stephen's Episcopal Church heard his secretary observe that a number of local churches were being "put in mothballs." In no time lively, curly-headed Dr. Hart, longtime unofficial chaplain of the University of Pennsylvania, was propagandizing among his colleagues for an Anti-Mothball Society. Motto: DON'T SLOW UP. Last week the Society had more than a score of participating churches, busy not only in organizing steady services but in promoting an inter-church tennis tournament, an employment agency, weekly interdenominational stunt nights. At St. Stephen's stunt...
...city of Waukegan whose merchants claim $125,000 annual business from local marriage mills, the week brought an end to their role of Illinois' Gretna Green. Illinois quick-marriage business will go to neighboring States. but not to Wisconsin, which already required Wasserman tests of males and which last week extended the requirement to females. As if Illinois' antivenereal restrictions weren't enough the State this week awaited its Governor's signature to a law requiring posting of three days' notice of intent...
...child Charlotte meanwhile had taken to running around with a local youth who had taught her to ride horseback. By the time the baffled veterinarians withdrew from the cow pasture, Charlotte Gibson, 23, was going to have a baby. The upright Gibsons decided to shoulder her shame. They had Ridingmaster Sidney Homewood, 24, prosecuted for seducing Charlotte. He "had to be punished so that young girls in the future may be spared a similar fate. One cannot think of one's own humiliation, but of society in general, and the necessity for preserving the beauty and sanctity of love...
...commotion. In May the New York Legislature had ordered that every cow in the State, privately milked or not, be tested for tuberculosis. Lawyer Gibson and his wife took lonely counsel with themselves. The Law had them and their cows at bay. Mr. Gibson telephoned for a local veterinarian and one midnight, as the Gibsons sat alone, they heard, from the meadow behind the house, one shot kill Molly Lewis, a second shot kill Sylvia. A man still has the right to kill his own animals...