Word: locales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politics had only a self-conscious interest for the country mailmen. As Civil Servants they were more interested in swapping notes on how to give "Service with a Smile" (their Association's motto) ; in swapping routes (a man from Maine exchanging with an Arizonian if their local postmasters approved); in boasting about the number of boxes they visit (Mrs. Annie Massey, 53, of Bay Springs, Miss. on one stretch of her 50 mi., 165-box route, has to travel 17 miles and cross: eleven bridges in an area of one squre mile); in marveling at the streamlined never-stick...
...part of a law school professor, an authority on criminal law, absentminded, mild as milk. On a leave of absence from his teaching job he takes on the post of special prosecutor, administers it with long-suffering innocence. But the time comes when he loses patience with the local hoodlums, takes off his coat, licks the daylights out of them with his bare fists. When his sabbatical year is over and he goes absently back to law school, the rackets are broken and he has beaten up about everyone in sight...
Directors Cahill and Parker are them selves surprised at the way small towns and cities have responded. In Sioux City, Iowa, last winter the local Plumbers' Union, WPA carpenters, the High School manual training classes, a local fur dealer and the Junior League all labored together to give Art a fitting home. In Salem, Ore., a retired professor contributed the first $100 and 2,000 school children chipped in. In Greensboro, N. C., the Community Centre was established in a busted bank and is now regarded by adjacent businessmen as a far greater asset in the location than...
...Flushing, L. I. white children, left while their mothers shop, get a chance to paint murals. Of the total attendance at community centres, more than half is composed of children and adults who actively participate in workshops and classes in local crafts such as Spanish-colonial woodcarving and embroidery in New Mexico. The Project has sent the centres 226 traveling exhibitions...
...West and in ten western States. In all cases the project starts by getting the community itself worked up over the idea. Pleasant Mr. Parker or his live-wire field man, Daniel Deffenbacher, arrives in town, confers with everybody from the mayor down. When, and only when, a local steering committee has raised a minimum of $2,500 and has acquired a building deemed suitable by the Project, the Project consents to help plan the centre and recruit a staff of Project-trained...