Word: localitis
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...Recently, President Coolidge received his first plumber's bill in two years-as the result of calling a local plumber to fix water pipes in White Court (TIME, July 6). Last week, it was reported that, for further repairs to his summer plumbing, he had had two skilled mechanics, part of the crew of the Mayflower, visit White Court...
Beyond Cape Harrigan, as far as a powerful telescope could take the eye to sea, vast ice floes stretched-the densest in years, according to local fishermen. At Cape Mugford, the Bowdoin's propeller was damaged...
...public prints each individually boasting of his marvelous powers and miraculous cures. But the Texas State Medical Association created a committee to devise dignified and effective means for advertising for the great body of allopathic physicians. This committee passed resolutions urging county Medical Associations 1) to publish advertisements in local papers of educational nature advising people how to get proper treatment for diseases and avoid false cures, and 2) to publish from time to time in these papers lists of the members of the county Medical Associations, so that the public might know what doctors in their opinion were properly...
...favorite angle of approach of the proponents of this false and deceiving propaganda is to point out Federal reductions from the high peak of War taxes and expenditures and the increase in state and local taxes since 1918. Comparisons, to be fair and honest, must cover the entire cycle from 1914 to 1924." He then proceeded to make comparisons between the Federal Government and his own state for the years...
Nicaragua. Local newspapers of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, announced that the U. S. marines would leave on Aug. 4. Washington confirmed the statement by stating that they would leave "early in August." The marines have been in Nicaragua for 13 years and were to have left early this year, but President Carlos Solorzano requested that they remain to maintain order pending the creation of a native constabulary. The constabulary is now functioning...