Word: localitis
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With tears in his eyes, he took his seat while the vast audience stood and cheered. "Vote, vote," they cried, as dozens sought to obtain the floor. A vote it wasng the ordination of women as local preachers, but denying them full ecclesiastical privileges, chief of which is membership in a district "conference." Such membership entitles one to an appointment which gives a living wage. Dr. Gray's objections to complete feminization were: "The possible refusal of an impassioned woman preacher to accept the responsibility of maternity . . . embarrassing situations ... the delicate and difficult social situation." Said he: "The glory...
Hell!" In response to an edict of The Faith Tabernacle, the entire sect has refused the services of local physicians; medical science is barred from the homes of all its members. The local health authorities have quarantined both the Tabernacle itself (a $60,000 brick structure), and the homes of nine families. Legal action has been started on the count that they disobeyed the State law in not having their children vaccinated before school age. Alderman Miller: "I am sorry that I can merely hold Winterborne for court on the State charge ... I consider his action in advising the people...
...according to the American Electric Railway Association, the industry is coming back. Cooperation between trolleys and buses is being effected, living fares are paid, and the public is taking a more sympathetic interest in its local trolley lines. In 1923 the industry spent over $2,000,000 in advertising and intends to increase its appropriations for this purpose during the present year...
...treaty of peace has been signed; the orchestral war at Philadelphia (TIME, April 21, May 12) is over. Honor and pocketbooks-both are satisfied. Independent announcements of the settlement were issued by Arthur Judson, general manager of the orchestra, and Thomas M. Rivel, president of the local union of the American Federation of Musicians...
...State's yearning for the finer things in the Theatre spent $1,200 in order to win a cash prize of $100 each. Yet each of the four players in this group felt that the glory more than balanced their bank account. They were a burning manifestation of local pride. Their group was established three years ago because the famine of first-rate touring attractions in Dallas spurred that town on to show that they could afford to ignore Broadway...