Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizenship generally and particularly in the Democratic portion. . . . There came into Kentucky Democratic Senators Barkley and Logan, the scholarly orator. ex-Governor and ex-Senator Stanley, Mrs. Ross, a woman ex-Governor from the West, several of Kentucky's Democratic Congressional delegation and others, who. with our local orators, upon every slump proclaimed the glory of the President and how a vote against the Democratic gubernatorial nominee was a vote to repudiate the President. Naturally, this "pro" oratory excited the President's very large popularity in the State to unusual activity...
...mine manager, missed. Most spectacular blow against Stakhanovism is supposed to have been struck by Engineer S. Plotnikov, a member of the Communist Party up to the time of his arrest. According to the Soviet Press, Engineer Plotnikov became so vexed at Chelyabinsk by the boastful uppishness of the local Stakhanov gang that he ordered the fastest speeder-uppers to dig in an extremely dangerous (Continued on p. 28) pit of Mine No. 204. Sure enough, the pit caved in on them...
...that it was often hard to believe that there had been any rehearsals. He presented young singers who were blatantly unqualified for the roles they were given. Blonde Jean Tennyson, wife of President Camille Dreyfus of Celanese Corp. of America, starred in Pagliacci, La Boheme, Faust. Rosalinda Morini, a local coloratura who sings off pitch, was the heroine in Traviata. One Mildred Gerber, a protegee of Alderman Jacob M. Arvey, trilled hesitantly as Lucia di Lammermoor. Though Chicago opera audiences are notably easy to please, there was vigorous hissing when Tenor John Pane-Gasser appeared in Il Trovatore, uncontrolled laughter...
...announced a religious Sunrise Service for her Column Family on Belle Isle last year, some 30,000 Detroiters crawled out of bed to attend. For a similar service this year attendance jumped, in Editor Gilmore's reckoning, by "two and a half acres" of people. When that alert local preacher named Edgar DeWitt Jones volunteered as Column Chaplain and invited Column Folks to visit his church in alphabetical sections, the church overflowed on four successive Sundays. Some 10,000 readers turned out when Nancy Brown's Column presented the Art Institute with a painting called Street in Brooklyn...
...Toppan Prize of $200 for the best essay or dissertation upon a subject in political science was awarded to Robert K. Carr, A.M. '30, Ph.D. '35, of Norman, Okla., for a dissertation on "State Control of Local Finance in Oklahoma...