Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that $10,164,730.91 passed through 43 Party organization accounts between 1935 and mid-1939. Brother William as treasurer of the New York State Party took in $1,302,177.13, disbursed $1,296,997.80 in 1937-38. National headquarters in Manhattan, which gets a fraction of total revenues from local and State units, banked $258,316 in 1937; $191,732 in 1938, and $113,146 in the first half...
...Less than a fourth took part in political campaigns, wrote to Congressmen or discharged any civic duty other than voting. Pollees were especially apathetic about municipal government and similar local affairs...
...urgent war to keep Poland from falling apart. General Smigly-Rydz's main concern was not whether it was to be a world war or a local war, whether casualties were to be ten or 10,000,000. What was important was that Poland, which had so often divided, should not divide again...
...Orleans: Port commissioners prepared to remove cargoes awaiting two overdue German freighters to local warehouses. Several other ships had canceled their sailings...
Next day most local maritime experts blamed the Itacare's, death on insecurely stowed cargo...