Word: localitis
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...Australian ports similar strikes were called by local meetings, and there the situation was more serious. It was reported that all shipping at Melbourne and Sydney was tied...
...They propose an increase of 2%% with the restoration of "customs autonomy"-the withdrawal of foreign supervision over tariff collection. Failing the latter, they are expected to press for an increase of 7½% bringing the maximum duties up to 12½% in order that the likin or local provincial taxes may be abolished...
...dared they? How could they hope to succeed in founding a national movement by picking a local politician for its head? Being able men, they doubtless had their reasons...
...conjecture what their reasons were: Here is this young Assemblyman, F. Trubee Davison. He is not of the ordinary run of local politician. No indeed. He is in politics more after the old British fashion?by which a distinguished family sends one of its sons into public life. What is more, he is able. He ought to be. Look at his father...
Salzburg hoteliers ran out of goats' cheese, black bread and beds. Celebrated visitors, unable to procure respectable lodgings or to endure the hard cots and sunburnt goitres of the local peasantry, appealed for aid to Herr Reinhardt...