Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When seen the Bremen was in drydock and was hastily having its abovedeck superstructure dismantled for immediate conversion into an aircraft-carrier. As far as this gentleman could ascertain work was proceeding ahead on twenty-four-hour schedule. Local people did not know for sure what the identity of the drydocked vessel was, but it was understood among shipping people that it could only have been the Bremen...
...More than a fourth of Palestine's Jewish population, 120,000 men and women, enrolled for local defense and service in the British Army...
...been on its mark to do just that since June 1938. From London headquarters Lady Reading shot twelve telegrams to her twelve regional chiefs (in Britain's twelve autonomous defense zones). They shot 2,000 telegrams to their local branches. From Lands End to John 0'Groats the grey-green overcoats began to gather their cars around station platforms. Other grey-green overcoats in London were leading little lines of towheads with lunch boxes and gas masks to Euston, Waterloo, Charing Cross, Victoria, Paddington stations, stuffing them into cars with more grey-green overcoats headed for whatever destination...
...over the student' purchasing power. And thus Charles H. Kip '83 was moved to organize the Harvard Cooperative Society. Mr. Kip's main purpose in founding the Society was to make living cheaper for the students, what at that time were unduly burdened with the exorbitant prices charged by local establishments...
...funny-- as is "And the Angels Sing"--done in the best grand opera tradition . . . Ten years ago: Lobe, the dog, was the star attraction with the Horace Heidt orchestra . . . Sacramento, Cal.: The Superior Court held a Sacramento city ordinance prohibiting music of any kind after 11 p.m. unconstitutional! No local reference needed...