Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significance of the Texas returns was that in a State primary local issues and local personalities can always overshadow national issues and even the personality of Franklin Roosevelt...
When the Bermuda railway was completed in 1931, many local patriots violently opposed it by stealing out at night, driving spikes intended to derail trains. This the Assembly thought no joke, legislated that in Bermuda attempting to wreck a train is punishable by 15 years in jail, squelched the wrecks...
...Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's exhibition of 15 pieces of sculpture, ranging from small bronzes to a huge plaster Rock Group turned out to be more popular than a show by 20 contemporary painters which opened at the same time. Aside from a group of abstract studies that local critics defended somewhat uneasily, paintings at the Newport Art Association exhibit included the veteran Edward Hopper's oil Sun on Prospect Street, Charles Burchfield's water color Black Iron, the work of John Marin, Thomas Benton, Reginald Marsh, Henry Yarnum Poor, others as eminent...
...Rockport, Mass., where most artists have studios on Bearskin Neck-and the local art association has been embroiled year after year with city fathers over the annual artists ball - the 18th annual show was lively, colorful, included work by Jon Corbino, Leon Kroll, Harrison Cady, better known for his illustrations for Peter Rabbit stories...
Howard Robard Hughes's flight around the Temperate Zone (see pp. 36, 50) last week had every managing editor poised for a beat on his local rivals. Day of the fliers' return to the U. S., "Cissie" Patterson's sprightly Washington Times appeared on the streets with a four-column, front-page picture purporting to show the plane on the landing field in Minneapolis. Same day, in its final edition, the Times crowed that it had beaten its competitors to the street by 27 minutes with the story of Hughes's landing in New York...