Word: localitis
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...present state offices on the outcome: Ma to resign if he beat her by a single vote; Dan to resign if she beat him by 25,000 Perhaps that seems a casual bandying of high public trust, but they like things casual in Texas. The candiates' gamble added local color to the campaign which was last week rushing to a climax...
...North Carolina local statesmen insist that the government should work at a process of recovering potassium from feldspar, a hard, glass-like composite of potassium salts with other minerals (aluminum and silicon). There are great beds of it in the green sands of New Jersey, the Cartersville slates of Georgia, and the leucite rocks of Wyoming. But the present cost of processing feldspar is far more than $40 a ton, the gage for fertilizer potassium...
Able Baltimore Sunman* Frank R. Kent recently toured, then exposed, censured, praised the South. Blushingly he conceded that "all this sounds like the dull booming of a local Chamber of Commerce." Then, full-throated, he said, "The astounding thing is that the figures of the Birmingham growth and development, of Atlanta's march ahead, of the strides in the Winston-Salem and Durham districts, check up. The claims made cannot be discounted nor the statements of the extraordinary expansion refuted. The rise in Birmingham's population from 35,000 in 1900 to 250,000 in 1926 tells...
...building stood adjacent to a mosque. Local Moslems took council. Were shadowy Christian pie-throwers to shuffle oversize feet, thumb noses, within nine paces of the shrine of Allah? Were milk-faced movie harlots to pervert the yearnings of Mohammedans for the swart-skinned houris of Paradise...
Within a few hours 8 of the Faithful were dead and 14 injured as the result of inter-Moslem riots to decide these questions. The rioters, catholic in their wrath, destroyed the local grain market, looted extensively, eventually were dispersed by military pickets...