Word: localitis
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Emerging from the obscurity of the state capital, Governor Arthur Harry Moore, sometimes dubbed "Silk Hat Harry," announced first that he did not have power to remove local officials accused of abusing the strikers...
...cooperative movement by the economic saving it offers them, they are beginning to realize its larger social and ethical significance," Mr. J. P. Warbasse, President of the American Cooperative League, said in his speech at the Liberal Club yesterday. "In many communities the cooperative society is superseding the local political organization in importance...
Comment concerning the incarceration of John Abbott '25, in an Italian gaol has been rife among members of the Current Events Club at Harvard during the last two days. Of course, the subject does possess enough local background to give it savor and flavor. Yet, after all, its importance is, to say the most, conversational...
...Whitehead and all the other gentlemen of the green plush. For it seems that when one cuts high does win and that you just must know or the Ladies' Whist and Euchre (prize a doily isn't it just dear) will kick you down the back stairs of your local reputation and Mrs. J. De Riff Punkle will cut you every time you meet her at the linen counter. Such is the effect of bridge upon the mind American...
...Santiago, Chile, the local press succeeded in obtaining the text of U.S. Secretary of State Kellogg's secret proposal for compromise between Chile and Peru as to what shall be done with the disputed area of Tacna-Arica, claimed by both for half a century (TIME, April 19 et ante). The Text: "The Secretary of State has the honor to suggest that in the interest of international peace and a cordial rapprochement between the parties [Chile and Peru], they consider the advisability of a mutual and joint sacrifice whereby either...