Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the bill a central organization is to be established in the Home Office to plan for evacuation of "target cities," such as London. With the co-operation of local authorities in the vulnerable cities, camp grounds will be laid out in the open country; food, water and sanitation arranged; facilities for transporting the civilian population set up. During the first & second readings tax-burdened local governments protested hotly that it was "unfair" to saddle them with the maintenance of civilians evacuated from other areas. To quiet these complaints Home Secretary Sir Samuel boosted the proportionate share to be paid...
Beginning last October, the process ot nomination commenced all over Russia at open meetings, with the nominating vote by show of hands in the presence of local Communist officials. These officials the Soviet press exhorted to "see that the right people are chosen." Moscow observers noted not only that 712 of 1,143 constituencies nominated Stalin for Parliament but most of them also went on to nominate as their candidates for parliament the Dictator's eleven most favored colleagues. From Leningrad to Vladivostok, from Samarkand to the Polar Cap this list of favorite candidates was repeated, in many cases...
...candidates did their best at the unaccustomed game of electioneering. In Moscow, one Ivan Gudov, candidate, electioneered by announcing that two days before the election he turned out on his lathe "4,852% more work than I am supposed to do in a day!" In Leningrad, the local head of the Secret Police, Leonid Zakowsky, issued a handbill urging his election which said: "Our people are confident of their fate and their country because they now have experienced and tested their police and detective forces!" The voters also did their best, in Stalin's district they wrote slogans like HURRAH...
...room were portraits of children by journeymen painters of the early 19th Century. In another were 45 paintings done by children between 1800 and 1861. Quest rooms on the second floor contained pictures by contemporary artists of the Chicago Public Schools. Chicago ladies found this combination of historical, local, esthetic and sentimental interests so irresistible that they bought paintings right & left...
...infernally cold in Chicago last Sunday, when the Washington Redskins played the local Bears for the professional football championship, that they sent asphalt burners out onto Wrigley Field to try to thaw it. They might as well have sent Frigidaires. Because cleats would slip like ice skates on the frozen ground, the teams took to the field wearing basketball shoes. In the stands 14,000 Chicagoans shivered. Some 1,200 Washingtonians were there too, because in the single season they have had a major-league professional team, Washingtonians have gone crazy about the game...