Word: locally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Ohio constitution makes no provision for martial law the militiamen were nominally at the command of the local sheriffs. Sheriff Elser of Mahoning County, mortally feared & hated by Youngstown strikers, promptly clapped nearly 200 unionists in jail for carrying concealed weapons and on "suspicion." What was worse, he left them there without arraigning them until a judge, outraged by such "willful failure" to grant the prisoners their constitutional right to a hearing, gave the sheriff a thoroughgoing public reprimand...
...known to have had no illusions that the Sit-Down was legal but to have deprecated it as no crime, just a misdemeanor. Last week in Philadelphia in the first Sit-Down ruling from the Federal bench, the Circuit Court of Appeals declared that sit-downers in a local hosiery mill were not only guilty of such crimes as forcible entry and forcible detainer but had violated the Wagner Act and the Sherman Anti-Trust...
...small group of newshawks, most of them local and familiar but some of them from out-of-town, stood around the desk of the Governor of Pennsylvania one day last week eying a prosaic-looking man with drooping eyelids. Said Governor George Howard Earle III: "Gentlemen, I have something here that may or may not be important to you but I feel very strongly about it at this time...
...Worst trouble was that none of the paper money in Bilbao was any good, its Rightist captors insisting that only their paper had value, and supplies of this had not yet arrived. Temporarily the Rightists distributed food free, a form of propaganda swallowed with sulky looks by many Leftists. Local chambers of commerce bustled about fixing up temporary means of doing business...
...Harry J. Richter experimented on methods of completely covering the olfactory nerve ends, Dr. Schultz, with help of Chemist L. P. Gebhardt, sought chemicals which might be more effective than alum. They decided on a solution of 1% zinc sulphate, 0.5% sodium chloride and 1% pontocaine, hydrochloride (a local anesthetic) in distilled water...