Word: localitis
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...Kansas City Star and Times published several pages of local 1925 income tax returns. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington immediately announced that it was within his jurisdiction to declare when tax returns are read)' for publication, that the 1925 returns are not ready yet, that in all probability he will not consider them ready until such time as the Supreme Court makes its decision on the publication of the 1924 returns last October (TIME, Nov. 3, THE PRESS, TAXATION, BUSINESS...
...they have ranged over a wide field; they have often introduced playwrights hitherto unknown to the American stage and always they have presented plays never before seen in this country. Drama, like music, of foreign contemporaries is all too seldom given, and since the club has offered such opportunities, local audiences have shown marked appreciation...
...Sinclair were not already known as the sourest bellied of all our local swill merchants, his vaudeville might...
...possible for a man to indulge in a bit of dicing, cock-fighting or rum-swigging without having the local gendarmerie about his ears and the stink of the Watch and Ward Society's hired liars in his nose...
...Philip Smith of Revere, an alleged bootlegger, Philip C. Tobey of Dorchester, his taxi-driver, as they were delivering a consignment of liquor to a club on Friday night. The Federal agents, however, disclaim any part in this arrest, and it was later found that it had been by local agents. Reports that Federal officers were actively engaged Saturday morning at the subway rotunda in opening suspicious suitcases. Commissioner Potters denied last night. "No, we aren't making a special drive to clean up Cambridge," he said. "It isn't worth the trouble; the thing that interests...