Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio from 3 to 4 o'clock tomorrow over local station WAAB and the New England Colonial Network, Hancock, Sullivan, and Lawrence F. Ebb '39 reaffirm the validity of the foreign policy. At Yale, later in the day, Cecil D. Elfenbein '38, Victor Vaughan '40, and F. Welch Peel '39 take the opposite stand...
...York on Sunday, proceed from the principles that 'the health of the people is a direct concern of the government," that a national public health policy for all the population should be formulated, and that the four groups concerned with giving medical care are the federal, state, and local governments, and private organizations...
Newshawks found Joseph Wright Harriman, 70, onetime head of the Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. (TIME. March 27, 1933) who went to jail after his bank collapsed, is now paroled, working for a Long Island Ford and Lincoln dealer. Remuneration: $25 a week and commissions. Said local dealers: "He's a corking good salesman...
After speeches, songs and organ music, up rose Local No. 1's acting president, John M. Fewkes, 38, to defy the Board of Education. Informing the audience that a board stenographer was taking notes, he shouted: 'T hope they get an earful." He proceeded to pledge the new union to drive the "spoils system" out of Chicago's schools. Shaking his fist, he cried: ''Let them fire...
...pony express, prairie schooner, pack burro, 20-mule team wagon, stage coach, locomotive, automobile. After a three-day trip the gourd was emptied from a swooping airplane into Bad Water, a brackish pool at Death Valley's lowest point. The fiesta was called the "Wedding of the Waters." Local citizenry hoped its offspring would be tourists...