Word: localitis
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...Local election boards ordered ballots printed. Mr. McBee and others organized meetings to urge citizens to vote in spite of the Governor's proclamation to the contrary...
These "weekly meditations" or "Sunday sermons" which the Premier of France has been making during the past year have rapidly taken on more than a local significance. Besides massing his countrymen behind him, he informs the world of his policies for the coming week and of his conclusions on the week that is past. Inspired by the devastations around him for his speeches have all been made in small towns in the invaded region. It is natural that his utterances should be colored by emotion. But they have been masterful and scholarly as well...
Governor Smith, of New York, then appointed Justice Wagner to preside over an extraordinary session of the Supreme Court, whose duties should be thoroughly to investigate the crime. The Attorney General's office superseded the local District Attorney. The wheels of justice were promptly set in motion. The prosecution secured another indictment from the new Grand Jury, on the theory that Peters was a poor boy, slain for some sinister reason by Ward, who was pictured as a wanton, wealthy wastrel...
...pressmen struck because of a long-standing grievance. It was, however, an outlaw strike in breach of contract. President Berry of the International Union dischartered the local, and made a new wage agreement on more liberal terms with the newspapers. The outlawed union's members were invited to resume work as members of the International Union, but, thoroughly angered, refused. One man was killed working for the New York Evening Journal (Hearst). Reporters who tried to attend the strikers' meetings were roughly expelled...
...pretty and very flexible soprano voice, is a native of Mexico, where she has sung with success. This success, she says, is the more praiseworthy because the Mexicans are biased against Mexican artists. Like natives of the U. S., they will patronize a foreign troupe enthusiastically, while a local company gain small patronage and less applause...