Word: local
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exiled German physicist, of the "theoretical and dogmatic" school now under current condemnation by the scientific precinct captains of the Third Reich, telegraphed to the local committee his hope of "lasting success," and added...
...next Crimson meet, and the first league meet for the Ulenmen, comes this Saturday when a weak Pennsylvania team will hope for an upset in the local pool...
Once again the hue and cry has arisen, and head-lines of a new "red" drive splash across the nation. The latest variant is the American Federation of Labor's threat to drive from home its child organization, the Teachers' Federation, unless the latter "cleans house" and ousts local "communist-controlled" units. Even the most cursory examination discloses the fact that this outburst is in the nature of a red herring, and that, in all likelihood, no one concerned will take any positive action...
...threatened drive is best explained as a sympathetic vibration from a bitter controversy which has long ranged within New York labor circles. There, in an atmosphere much beclouded--perhaps almost completely conditioned--by personal and political factors, several local teachers' unions have been unceasingly persecuted by a few other teachers, a good many rival labor leaders, and the Hearst press en masse. Because of a personal connection between the New York embroilment and the A. F. of L. Committee on Education, which is responsible for the "red" scare, it is easy to conjecture the latter as a deliberate maneuver...
...drive for money is completed," he said, excepting unpaid pledges, and added that he thought the money would be sufficient to keep the refugees for a second year. Economy in the funds will be effected by boarding the students with local residents who have offered to keep them free as their contribution to the Committee...