Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago last week. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was re-elected President of the U. S. by the biggest vote in U. S. history. Last week, while local elections popped and fizzled through the land, the President drove to the town hall of Hyde Park to cast his vote on a ballot headed by the candidate for town supervisor. Inquired Miss Alma Van Curan, Democratic chairman of the election board...
Last week's elections (see p. 15) large and small, proved nothing if not that most of the voters who had gone to the polls had been more concerned with local issues than with national party lines. The President's vote-299th in his District-helped re-elect his friend Elmer Van Wagner by 275 votes...
...personally friendly to C. L O. State Chairman is Vice President Luigi Antonini of the C. I. O. International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, a voluble Italian who wears a Buster Brown tie and is also president of I. L. G. W. U.'s Manhattan dressmakers' Local 89, the largest (42,000 members) union local in the world. Treasurer is Andrew Armstrong, vice president of the A. F. of L.'s well-intrenched Printing Pressmen's Union. Treasurer Armstrong's money raising devices are a 10? annual levy per member on the affiliated unions...
Phillips Brooks House, St. Paul's Church, and other local welfare organizations are already taxed to their utmost. Although they might supply workers, they can make no initial investment. The University, on the other hand, owns several vacant lots near Leverett and Dunster Houses, and farther out by the Maintenance Building. The cost of equipping these lots as playgrounds, with swings and possibly a pair of goal-posts, would be slight, and, if a genuine effort were made in this direction, perhaps the City of Cambridge could be persuaded to lend more help to these youngsters than it does...
From these principles the group of doctors urge that the immediate problem of providing adequate medical care for the "medically indigent" should be met by use of public funds, either federal or local, and that public moneys should be made available for medical research to raise the standards of practise in the country...