Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practical Politics. In Central Falls, R.I., after two long years out of office, the Democrats recovered the reins of local government and promptly changed the locks on the city hall doors...
Labor members whooped and cheered. Bevan got his extra ?58 million. A fitting epilogue came from Bristol, where a workingman feeding sea gulls sneezed his false teeth into the harbor and was voted a new set by the local health officials. Generously, they held he had lost his teeth "by accident and not carelessness...
...against dilapidated hovels, noisome shops and tumbledown factories. Rensburg took scrupulous notes on each report. Then he went to investigate. He gave some storekeepers 24 hours to close down their businesses. He revoked licenses right & left. He condemned some buildings as unsafe and ordered immediate structural repairs on the local butcher shop. Butcher Sam Wiseman was so frightened that he promptly called a contractor and begged him to work over the weekend...
...inspire respect rather than pity, Molina left out the traditional wounds, a departure that shocked Neiva's orthodox clergy. Nevertheless, the local government decided to exhibit the statue last month at the Bolivarian Eucharistic Congress in Cali. There clerical higher-ups agreed that it was good church art-except for the absence of the wounds. After Molina added them, the statue was blessed by the Archbishop of Cartagena...
...tussle with the Johnston Office by killing off the murderer, a kindly old doctor, before Insurance Investigator Dennis O'Keefe can catch up with him. But, preoccupied with Dennis' courtship of a suspect's daughter (Barbara Britton), they blithely overlook the fact that a local banker was an accessory to murder and that Sheriff William Bendix shut his eyes to the crime. The rather whimsical reward for all this tampering with justice: Dennis gets the girl...