Word: smalltowner
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...Walsenberg, Colo., where are the state headquarters of the I. W. W., members of the Chamber of Commerce, with the mayor's authority, raided the I. W. W. office. "Smalltown imitation Fascisti," sneered the I. W. W. The next day, Oct. 16, meeting at Pueblo, they called their strike...
Editors were in a quandary because, startling though it was, every page of The President's Daughter seemed to ring true. Nan Britton did not sound like an adventuress but like a smalltown girl who felt she had experienced one of the worlds great loves. Moreover, names and places, letters, photographs and episodes were in great and confident profusion through the book. The bravest, most brazen charlatan would never have dared so much...
People muttered obvious things about a "smalltown banker" being placed in charge of all national banks in the U. S., but Mr. Crissinger's ability soon silenced such mutterings. And none could gainsay the appropriateness of his further elevation, in 1923, to the gov- ernorship of the Federal Reserve System...
...SmallTown Gossip...
Baptists from great city congregations, from lonely mountain missions and from comfortable smalltown pastorates, gathered in Washington last week for the Northern Baptist Convention. They gathered to state opinions that were burning within them and to ask questions that had been troubling their reins this long time. And they gathered in pity and fear, for they faced a problem that might rive their church to its foundations...