Word: locally
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Plainly it [the A. P.] has become one of the most powerful engines for the creation of public opinion in the world. . As it is, the very fact that in the smaller cities and the rural districts it must rely upon its members for accounts of local happenings, places it at the mercy of their reporting...
...view of the employing class. ... To illustrate: In the steel strike of 1919 the Press ot Pittsburgh sided entirely with the employers. . . . Actually in only one issue out of 400 did an article appear which described the scandalous violations of American liberties and of the federal Constitution by local authorities. ... I desire here, however, to stress that there are real and legitimate difficulties in the way of the Associated Press's reporting the troubles of the disfranchised and disadvantaged...
...picture-the relations between an egotistic young musician and the waif he has married for commercial reasons-is spoiled by Joseph Schildkraut's familiar affectations, his habit of speaking lines of conversation as though he were reciting a Macaulay essay. Silliest shot: the champagne party in the local cabaret...
...slowly but surely achieving this task is indicated by the great progress that has been made toward clearing the trail blazed by these two public benefactors. Here at Harvard, notable advances have been made in the use of nitrous oxide and oxygen, and especially in the technique of administering local anaesthetics...
...first place, it is an obvious and unpretentious attempt to please. Characters are dripping in over doses of local color this time its the corn tassels of Iowa with a fair share of effete Eastern gawdiness. The singing by Miss Gaynor and Mr. Farrell is every way similar to their efforts in "Sunny Side Up" while the plot is just another version of Cinderella reversed or the Perfume Counter dream. But the point is that this is not Ibsen but Janet Gaynor assisted by Charles Farrell...