Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gian-Carlo Menotti was born near Milan. His father was a wealthy importer who did business with Colombia. His mother taught Gregorian chant in a local church. Save for her, young Gian-Carlo had little music instruction until he was 18. In that year Father Menotti died, and Gian-Carlo went to South America to set tle his accounts. Later, in New York, he met Rosario Scalero of Curtis Institute who got him a scholarship there...
...trying to escape from an undesirable suitor. By the time both have been chased by the same motorcycle policeman into refuge at the same Adirondack cabin, Nostrand thinks Millicent is a summons server, she thinks he is a gangster. It takes the arrival at the cabin of a shaggy local trapper (Slim Summerville), a real gangster, a machine-gun posse led by the local sheriff (John Qualen), a blizzard and a tame rabbit to relieve their misapprehensions...
...Major J. ("Father") Divine who have never laid eyes on the man they think is God, is a sizable group in California. These Divinites claim to number 100,000, one-quarter of them white. In Los Angeles last week, G-men were delving into affairs of the local "kingdom." In his Harlem and Kingston, N. Y. headquarters small, brown Father Divine, despite his claim that he is not responsible for his out-of-town followers, was plainly worried - all because able Reporter Johnston Davis ("Jack") Kerkhoff of the New York Journal had dug up a lurid story about the brown...
Stacked neatly on pianos, mantle pieces and bookshelves in a million U. S. homes last week were increasing piles of cheaply printed books, bought by their owners for a few cents a volume plus coupons clipped from successive editions of their local newspapers. Having gotten rid of 14,000,000 cheap books up to last week, the number of U. S. newspapers participating in a new wave of premium circulation-getting passed the hundred mark. Most conspicuous recruit of the week was the "World's Greatest Newspaper," Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's lusty Chicago Tribune, which announced complete...
...Kansas City, at their second annual convention and dance the local chapter of the Missouri State Liquor Dealers' Association strictly banned all liquor. Explained Business Manager M. E. O'Connell: "We are trying to educate the public ... I mean, we want to show we are not a bunch of rumheads and boozers...