Word: provinciale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Excitedly played by citizens of many lands, last week, was the game of Ring Around Nobile-a question game. Was that Swede really eaten by those two Italians? Would Dictator Mussolini snub and degrade General Nobile? What about Titina, the General's little, yapping fox terrier bitch? Why wasn...
In Washington, a man named Roy A. Young presides day by day over the Federal Reserve Board, central authority of the twelve regional banks. In Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, sit Governors with as much authority as clothes the Governor of New York's bank. But when Benjamin Strong, lean, nervous...
Puzzled, irritated, New York bankers asked questions. Who gave provincial Chicago the right to criticize internationally-minded Manhattan and its Gov. Strong? In New York papers, an anonymous banker charged the regional bankers suffered "delusions of grandeur." And, if it came to that, who were these Chicagoans, anyway?
Soon, however, James E. West, Chief of the Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America, wrote a letter to rebuke President Floyd A. Rowe of the Cleveland Boy Scout Council, whose idea the cigaret crusade apparently was. Executive West told Executive Rowe that the provincial council had a "misunderstanding...
Soon the national indignation of Austrians became so great that 289 provincial Mayors rushed to Vienna, called in a body upon Chancellor Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, and demanded that he despatch a diplomatic protest to Signor Benito Mussolini.