Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little TVAS, "... I recommended to the last session of the Congress the creation of seven planning regions, in which local people will originate and co-ordinate recommendations as to work of this kind to be done in their particular regions. The Congress will, of course, determine the projects to be selected within the budget limits...
North China's ancient capital Peking, which has been called Peiping for the past nine years by decree of Premier Chiang, is now administered by Chinese officials under orders of its Japanese conquerors. Last week amid local rejoicing the city resumed its name of Peking, meaning proudly "Northern Capital," whereas the insipid name of Peiping has meant "Northern Peace...
...second poll in France's nationwide election for municipal councilors (TIME, Oct. 18), confirmed last week the first results tabulated fortnight ago, proved two things: 1) the Radical Socialist Party of Premier Camille Chautemps. a party which is not radical but studiously middleclass, still polls more votes in local elections than any other; 2) the Socialist Party of Vice...
Premier Léon Blum, which is an actual Socialist party and polled most votes in the national election last year, has not repeated this triumph in the local balloting. This meant that the French "New Deal," introduced under M. Blum when he became Premier in 1936, has now lost the wide appeal it had at first. French voters seem predominantly satisfied by the way in which Premier Chautemps has sidetracked the New Deal at the point of radical progress it had reached when the Blum Cabinet fell (TIME, June 28 et seq.). This policy canny M. Chautemps calls...
...once the local Varsity proved able to capitalize on its scoring breaks. Playing like babies with a ball through the first theree periods, Captain Powell's men held a 2-2 position in the early minutes of the fourth quarter due to two startling dashes by Jo Johansen. The speedy wing twice outraced the Green fullbacks in the first period, once to tally himself and once to send a scoring pass to Arthur Page...