Word: localitis
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Such an outcome was not unexpected. To deprive local communities of the privilege of issuing tax-exempt bonds, would restrict their borrowing power. This would cut down public building projects and seriously affect local political patronage...
...President suggested that the conference might aid the Government: 1) by appointing committees "to assist the Department of Agriculture in adopting its efforts to local conditions"; 2) by ascertaining some practical means by which agricultural indebtedness might be refunded along sound lines, so as to assist farmers and banks, essentially solvent, but pressed for credit...
...from Stoughton's Hall." Unfortunately he does not follow his stated purpose of criticism entirely but describes in a number of pages curious dreams in which he meets a number of characters disputing of various subjects, and tells at great length of an meeting of one of the local college clubs, the Spy Club so called...
...Crimson skaters will be seeing blue jerseys on the backs of the Maples at the Arena tonight. With the initial Eli contest only four days away, this evening's fracas with the local club team is regarded as a keying-up process for the big session with Yale on Saturday. Although warming up in action will be the main objective tonight, this does not mean that Coach Winsor is enthusiastic about coming out with the chilly end of the score...
Fashion Row. By a clever manipulation of wigs, Mae Murray contrives to do a successful sister act. As her older sister, she is a Russian immigrant in New York who rises to the brilliant dignity of a star in the local theatrical firmament and marries into a Mayflower family. All this under the pretense that she is a princess. Discarding the black wig and the tragedy manner, she again arrives in New York? this time as her younger sister? wide-eyed and penniless. On the same boat is an oily anarchist who discovers the interlocking relationships, gets them all together...