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Word: localism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With that unpleasant thought in mind, the Governors voted for a national conference to lay down a comprehensive, simplified tax program for local, State and Federal Governments. Most of the Governors forthwith boarded a special train to Washington, put their proposition to President Roosevelt at a White House luncheon (see p. 9). Maryland's unhappy Nice was rushed home in a New Jersey State Police ambulance for an emergency operation (rectal abscess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Governors' Party | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Education. One bitter theme was Federal aid for local schools. South Carolina's Johnston: "We should be as jealous of individual liberty in education as we are of individual liberty in religion. . . . South Carolina will always demand its right to segregate the whites and the blacks. . . . We would not condone anything which approaches racial equality." North Carolina's Hoey: "In my State the municipalities accepted State funds and the burden of education gradually shifted to the State. The same thing will happen in the Federal Government." Maine's Barrows: "I most certainly fear control of education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Governors' Party | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...Department of Government's program was initiated in 1934 to prepare recent college graduates or those with one or two years' practical experience, but not over 24 years of age, for positions as legislators or administrators in Federal, state, and local governments, and as publicists or trade association officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 6 PUBLIC SERVICE SCHOLARS NAMED BY GOVERNMENT CHIEFS | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...Local Colleges Co-operate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARIETY OF SUBJECTS WILL BE OFFERED TO BOSTONIANS THIS YEAR | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...three initial games with the local schools are rendered more difficult because the schoolboys usually get a start of a week or two on the college Freshmen. Furthermore, a week or more is necessary before the Freshman coaches can put together a team from the packs of players with most of whom they are entirely unacquainted. A glance at the records of past football teams easily verifies this apparently pessimistic statement. The drought in Freshman football victories during the last two years has been desolate, to say the least...

Author: By John J. Reldy jr., | Title: Stahley to Greet Freshman Football Candidates Today | 9/24/1937 | See Source »

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