Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They opened fire too soon on a launch carrying Stalin across Pitsunda Bay and it was able to veer away from shore to safety. The other attempt to assassinate Stalin, according to the State, was made near Gagry, in 1935, by a group of prominent local Communist officials who were armed with an automatic rifle, a German carbine and a revolver. They failed because the Dictator chanced to be driven past the point at which these Communists were going to try to kill him ahead of schedule. The assassins had not yet arrived...
...popularity of the New Deal gave him his big chance in 1933. Then he made the Eagle a free circulation Democratic daily. In a few months he hit on the big McCraken idea: into his morning tabloid he inserted-for paid subscribers only-a four-page section of local editorial comment, fiction, comics. His'best stunt was to run a serial or comic in the free sheet, then switch it to the paid insert. Thus he gradually converted free readers into paying subscribers...
...bought and made daily tabloids of the weekly Newcastle News-Letters and Rock Springs Rocket. These followed the pattern of the Eagle: breezy style, plenty of comics, big, black type and Democratic politics. To keep his papers on their toes, Publisher McCraken made each local manager a part owner...
Abbott believes it is the largest U. S. maker of barbiturates, ephedrine products and arsenicals, also sells Haliver Oil, Metaphen, Chlorazene, Butyn" Estrone, some 1,200 other drugs grouped under such categories as vitamins, burn preparations, antiseptics, local anesthetics, hormones, pollens. Drs. Abbott & Burdick died years ago. President of Abbott Laboratories now is S. DeWitt Clough, who joined the company 33 years ago as sales manager, is still partial to high-pressure sales-technique. Also partial to good employe relations, he is generally popular with Abbott's 1,639 workers. They are about half as numerous as the rats...
...Wausau, Wis., Mrs. Clara Kohl, 50, applied to her local relief bureau for funds to divorce her husband in order that she might remarry. She was finally refused after the district attorney ruled that divorce fees did not constitute "relief" within the legal meaning of the word...