Word: locally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bronzed peasants of the Province of Littoria, every man an ex-soldier, shouted rustic greetings to the Dictator as he pulled up his car, jumped out. The local Bishop was waiting, for close collaboration of State & Church distinguishes the Mussolini dictatorship from others. A hollow cornerstone of what will be the Church of Pomezia was ready, Il Duce slipped in a parchment and some newly minted Italian coins of 1938, seized the trowel and slapped, spread mortar with the professional touch he has shown in cornerstoning other cities of Littoria (see map), namely Littoria, the capital of the Province, Sabaudia...
...seven Houses, Dudley, and Apley-Claverley, nine rotating squads will be selected. From these groups will be chosen to debate before local church and civic groups. The decisions will be rendered by the votes of the audience...
Cracker Boy Wilcox has helped crack many a pet project of Franklin Roosevelt. In the midst of his campaign, he scuttled up to Washington to vote against the Reorganization Plan, claimed personal responsibility for defeating it on the grounds that his reports of local feeling caused four other Representatives to change their votes. In Florida's current political cockfight, Cracker Boy Wilcox's chief distinctions so far have been the facts that: 1) he has only one sound truck to two for each of his opponents; 2) his expenses are thus far listed...
Literally true to his promise not to meddle in this year's local elections Franklin Roosevelt has so far himself said nothing whatever about this year's Florida primaries. But when James Roosevelt stopped off in Palm Beach last winter, he glibly announced: "It is our sincere hope that he [Claude Pepper] will be returned to the Senate." Mark Wilcox's acid comment: "The State of Florida is waiting with bated breath to see what stand Sistie and Buzzie [Dall] will take...
Widow Grace Goodhue Coolidge sold The Beeches, the $39,000 eight-acre Northampton, Mass, estate on which Calvin Coolidge died in January 1933 to a local lumber dealer for a reputed $10,000. Mrs. Coolidge is building herself a new house in Northampton, now spends her winters in Columbus...