Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throwing a discordant note into the two-cornered rivalry of Richard M. Russell '14 and Robert Luce '82 for congressman from local District 9, a progressive Harvard political group organizes in Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock tonight to support Florence H. Luscomb for the office...
...believer in such tales, the Woodbridge Recorder surprised the complainants by ordering them to cease their blather about Mrs. Czinkota. When the Hungarians continued to shiver and mutter, the authority of the Church had to be invoked. The local Hungarian-speaking priest commanded the women to forget their fears, pacifically explained that Mrs. Czinkota might have been "under hypnotic influence" when observed by Hungarian peeping-Toms...
...bulk of newspaper circulation belongs to Republican sheets. Mr. Dunn's thesis is that newspapers so accurately reflect and so strongly influence their readers, that the paper a man or woman buys is a declaration of the ticket he or she will vote. Without releasing any local poll and circulation figures to prove his claim, Mr. Dunn pointed to the significant fact that in the 1932 election, 39,000,000 citizens voted. That year, Mr. Dunn estimated, U. S. newspapers had 38,000,000 readers...
...memoirs of two U. S. women of affairs painted dark portraits of Count Johann von Bernstorff, pre-War German Ambassador to the U. S. Countess de Chambrun in Shadows Like Myself (TIME, Sept. 28), included the Ambassador among the powerful, devious, tenacious conspirators of the German Embassy who influenced local elections, created social difficulties for the French Embassy. Mary Doyle in Life Was Like That described how she had been sent by the New York World to spy on Bernstorff during his absence from Washington in the hope of uncovering a journalistic sensation. Last week Bernstorff himself offered his memoirs...
...Wife of a toll-bridge keeper in Bay St. Louis, Miss., mother of six children, author of many rejected short stories, Mrs. Jacobs learned of her good fortune on her 44th birthday and on her 22nd wedding anniversary. Born in Old Town, Me., she had previously written for local newspapers. After graduation from the University of Maine, she married a classmate and went South with him to make their home. The Old Ashburn Place was written at night and during occasional free hours, took four years to complete. Planning to use her windfall to educate her children, Mrs. Jacobs visited...