Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memorial Day an airplane roared over New England trailing a banner inscribed: AMERICA AWAKE, THE OXFORD GROUP, STOCKBRIDGE. With the local post of the American Legion the Groupers paraded, held a meeting in front of the Stockbridge town hall. Leader of the parade, in a dirty, beaded leather jacket, was an Indian chief named Uhm-Pa-Tuth, billed as a Stockbridge (Mohican) Indian who had ended up on a reservation in Wisconsin, there turned to God and away from civilization and education which, he told the meeting, "don't make an Indian or anybody else any bet-ter." Marchers...
...After serving nine years on the board of governors, Thaddeus Reamy ("Brick") Benson, 51, was elected president of the Chicago Stock Exchange to succeed Michael J. O'Brien, a local partner of Paine, Webber & Co., who had held the post thrice. White-haired President Benson got his start in his father's real estate firm, shifted to American Can Co., later went into roofing. A broker since 1910, he became senior partner of F. M. Zeiler & Co. in 1923. Handsome, humorous, immaculately dressed, "Brick" Benson likes to fish, play golf, lives in suburban Winnetka. Asked about the outlook...
...popular with all members of the audience, and present knotty transportation difficulties. But the elephants, the trapezists, the trick riding, the clowns are hardy perennials. Of the professional clowns Fellows remembers, one filled in the winters at osteopathy, one was a patent lawyer. Everywhere the circus goes, says Fellows, local bankers, merchants, doctors want to act as a clown for one show. "To accommodate them we keep several extra costumes on hand...
...FAIR A HOUSE-Welbourn Kelley- Morrow ($2.50). Reports the trials of a Carolina gentleman-writer and mill-owner who, already harassed by the task of bringing up three children in the absence of a philandering wife, becomes involved in a local labor war. Crammed with action and sexual intrigue, saturated with heavy sentiment, this chaotic melodrama reveals a disturbing picture of life in the South...
...IMMENSE SUN-Blair Niles- Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Historical romance set in 16th Century Peru. Author Niles, who spent two years on the scene absorbing local color, researching into Inca lore, turns out a monument to industry, if not artistry...