Word: locales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefit of Labor voters a list of Congressmen coming up for renomination and re-election this year. Rated on this roster, chiefly by their votes on wage-hour control, were: A) aggressive friends of labor; B) passive friends of labor; C) borderliners whose fate might be decided by local circumstances; D) aggressive enemies of labor. Obviously this invitation to turn out the rascally Ds suited C.I.O.'s program of direct political action and tied in well with Administration strategy...
Rural journalism began as a sideline for job printers. Its editorial basis was local gossip; its financial foundation was patent medicines-Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Sloan's Liniment, Beecham's Pills, Carter's Little Liver Pills, which were among the first national advertisers. Today there are 11,852 country papers, nearly half of them more than 50 years old, 151 more than 100 years...
...favorite plea, particularly of heavy industries such as steel and cement, that some sort of price stabilization : needed to prevent local monopolies (TIME, July 11). Maybe so, concedes Dr. Nourse but this cannot be justified in the long run for it means conducting industry in the interest of the inefficient and disregarding the advantages of technological progress...
Gilbert (pop. 3,500), on the Mesabi Range of Minnesota, is a town without visible means of support. Its three iron mines are closed. Most of its employed inhabitants are on the public payroll, supported by local taxes on the closed mines. Some 175 are on WPA. The village employs another 150 as policemen, firemen, street cleaners, librarians. The school board gives jobs to 55 teachers, some 200 janitors (one for every three pupils), each of whom works three to ten days a month. The Gilbert Herald is supported by $4,000 of public printing work...
...local color he discovered, Author Daniels finished his trip disturbed, thoughtful, none too optimistic. The Civil War caused suffering in the South, he admits, but its chief injury was that it gave southerners an excuse for doing nothing. Despite lynchings,* he believes that Negroes and whites have lived together in relative quiet, decency and peace, and that if the South is to rise, both races must rise together. He concludes that the tariff hurt the South more than Sherman ever did, that a northern economic occupation is now ending just as its military occupation once ended. From northerners, he asks...