Word: localitis
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...suspicious characters. They telephoned back to the Governor of Rhode Island. He remonstrated with the Massachusetts law to release his Officers. Massachusetts declined. At 1 a. m. the seven hapless Rhode Islanders were locked in separate cells. Nor did they get out till some time later, when a local Attorney furnished bail...
...will have to fall back on the land wires of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. as a basis. These wires will receive the speeches from the microphone, where it is set up, and take them to the cities from which they are to be broadcast, whereupon the local stations in those cities will put them on the air. In other words, the main wire channel is limited to what the American Telephone and Telegraph Company can provide. It has a service to maintain, and cannot throw overboard every thing to give right of way to broad casting...
...should, therefore, be confined to the local stations of the East. Arguments addressed to the farm issues, similarly, should be localized in that region. Where the broadcasting can be confined to one locality the problem will be greatly simplified. . . . Unless the broadcasting of politics is kept within reasonable bounds, the public will tire of it as soon as the novelty wears...
...House of Lords. Not much time has elapsed since the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Herbert Murray Burge, introduced to the House a bill to control consumption of alcoholic beverages by local option. The bill secured the support of the "dryasdust" Lord Astor; the Government also gave its support with a number of reservations...
Rural banks are first to benefit. Old loans frozen back in 1921 and 1922 are gradually being paid off. Indeed, bankers predict that small local banks are sufficiently supplied with liquid funds to finance the movement of the current crop without recourse to New York, Chicago and other surplus money centres to the same extent that has been necessary in recent years...