Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas had sole claim to celebrate her Centennial. San Antonio, Goliad, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Houston, all had claims, as sites of critical events in the year 1836 (see p. 13). So the Centennial arrangers granted every city and village a right to its own celebration, raised practically every local rodeo, county fair, flower show, milk festival, fiddlers' reunion to the rank of a Centennial observance...
Christ's Court. During the past two years, Fundamentalist Machen and a handful of his followers have defied the Presbyterian Assembly by belonging to the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (TIME, April 23, 1934, et seq.) Tried and in most cases convicted by local presbyteries, they repeatedly appealed until last week they were before the bar of the Church's highest tribunal- the Assembly, sitting as a "Court of Jesus Christ" and voting upon preliminary decisions made by the Permanent Judicial Commission whose head is Minnesota's Supreme Court Justice Clifford L. Hilton. To the appeals...
...placate the devil, bring a good catch. After three fruitless days the tribesmen were about to rebel, when Tatagu spied a large school of the succulent makasi fish. Returning home in triumph, the Chief of Chiefs learned that a son had been born to him. In accordance with a local custom of naming progeny after the most important event of the moment, Tatagu called his babe Kata Ragoso, meaning "No Devil Strings...
...absence of lodgings at the University the Bureau is conducting a local research and has already uncovered 1,000 rooms in Cambridge. The list of these suites with their rates, together with a record of Greater Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge hotels, has been printed and is available in reply to inquiries on the subject of a night's rest...
...regard to food the Bureau has also conducted a careful survey of the local eating places, about 30 of which have been located in Harvard Square and its environments. These establishments, it is felt, are sufficient to absorb the extra numbers at the time of the Celebration...