Word: localitis
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...dashed by the police, entered the hotel, chased Signor Amendola up to his bedroom on the fourth floor where he locked himself in. His secretary received a black eye for being heavy of foot and stiff of limb. At this point, Fascist Deputies prevented further insurrection by urging the local Black Shirts to remain calm and Signor Amendola to leave town...
Nicaragua. Proselytism is usually more dangerous for the proselyters than for the proselytees, as a party of Protestant missionaries discovered last week in Catholic Granada, Nicaragua. From the outset the local Catholic Bishop was distinctly adverse to having the Protestant Central American Mission ensconced in his diocese. But the Protestants came, presumably to proselytize, and the Catholics grew irate, made angry noises, threw stones, then threatened violence, death. The missionaries ?two females and one male?asked the Nicaraguan Government for protection. A commission of inquiry and 50 soldiers were sent...
...time there was quiet. Suddenly last week Hiram Wesley Evans, Imperial Wizard of the Klan, directed the Colorado Klan to hold all the Klan's funds and property subject to his orders. This property included a $60,000 interest in a cotton mill. Again a large body of local Klansmen rose up in protest. At a meeting at which Dr. Locke was not present, they turned in their Klan membership cards, and took out membership in "The Minute Men of America,"* an organization which was described as fostering similar ideals...
What knack he has of local flavor and of briny personality the cinema seems to have missed. The story is of an old salt possessed of religious zeal and physical fear. A handsome life guard wins his lovely daughter...
...many states, however, insurance companies are supervised by the state government, insurance salesmen are licensed. In New York State especially is this the case. Mr. Chrysler's plan leaves it to the automobile salesmen indirectly to sell insurance, thus cutting into business formerly sought and held by licensed local companies. The practice also nullifies the power of state insurance supervisors. Accordingly, in New York State, both the State Superintendent of Insurance and the local insurance companies are up in arms against Mr. Chrysler's scheme...