Word: local
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Official purpose of the display was to promote an international memorial to Christopher Columbus. In the Dominican Republic, people seldom speak of Trujillo by name. When they discuss their savior, they find it safer to refer to the local equivalent of "Mr. Jones" (as do Benito Mussolini's subjects). But when Senator Green & companions got home last week, it became clear that Trujillo had also done himself a good turn. Mr. Green regaled his acquaintances with accounts of the seven hospitals, the sanitation, the orderly well-being apparent in Ciudad Trujillo. A correspondent of the Washington News who accompanied...
...years Hines romped with children of his district at picnics of his Monongahela Club. He watched such local boys make good as Frank Costello, "King of the slot machines" and Harry ("Gyp the Blood") Horowitz, executed murderer. Once he went $15,000 bail for "Scratch" McCarthy, forger (now jailed). Hines explained that as an active political leader who regularly attended sporting events his friendship was sought "by persons in various walks of life"-but insisted he shared none of their illicit profits...
Manhattan is a cluster of villages, and among the 1,000-odd newspapers and magazines published in Manhattan are some 20 designed for village consumption, to catch the local advertiser's dollar. These range from the snobbish, slick-paper hotel publications of Robert L. Johnson Magazines, Inc. (Waldorf's Promenade, Pierre's Pierrot, etc.) to such modest community sheets as the Tudor City View, London Terrace News, The (Greenwich) Villager. Columbus Circle has its Mid-towner, Radio City its Rockefeller Center Magazine. That...
...many a business executive, expert that he may be in selling goods or building a mousetrap, has no gift for wooing the public: he needs an associate who can expound his "social responsibilities" to workers, to the buying public, to local communities, to the Federal Government. The easiest way to get this done is to hire one of the small group of well-fed, top-flight "public relations counsels...
Organizer Joseph Stefani revealed last night that since the truce on March 15 between the University and 400 strike-hungry employees the union membership had swelled substantially. "As far as the cooks are concerned, we have automatically a closed shop." He said that enrollment in the waitresses' local was rapidly nearing 100 per cent of those on Harvard's payroll...