Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After such training the men are assigned to local or district sales offices, from which they cover a specific territory as salesmen. Their customers will include jobbers and wholesale dealers, retail store buyers, office executives, or purchasing agents...
Furnishing former greats from Lehigh, Haverford, Tufts, Navy, and Williams, the graduate schools provided strong opposition for the local grapplers in the Intramural Wrestling Preliminaries held yesterday at the Indoor Athletic Building...
...fellow-citizen's garbage. Englewood's First M. E. Church, not the swankest in town but the largest and richest of the denomination in Bergen County, got its white-thatched black-browed Dr. Ball in 1931 by the usual Methodist method: accepting the man assigned by the local conference. With increasing apprehension Dr. Ball's congregation listened to Sunday sermons out of a liberal's bag of tricks-against "economic greed," against armament appropriations, against restrictions of civil liberties, in favor of all manner of social legislation. Preacher Ball also went outside to lecture...
...Constitution, the Federal Reserve System was originally designed with a full set of checks and balances. A check: to have the chairmen of the twelve regional Reserve Banks appointed by the Reserve Board in Washington. A balance: to have the governors (now presidents) named by the local directors of each Reserve Bank. Last year when the New Deal architects remodeled the Federal Reserve System into what for all practical purposes is a central bank of issue under political control, the reconstituted Reserve Board was given the power to veto the choices of the twelve Reserve Banks for both presidents...
...into pre-Christian times, and each generation was a little harder than the one before. Because his father took a scunner against him, Hannes was condemned to be educated. While his brothers and sisters were brought up to be farmers he learned the three R's with the local pastor. Christiane, the Count's daughter, was his fellow-student, and they grew up to be harum-scarum pals. Then Christiane's father took her away and Hannes left home too, to learn engineering. After the War he went back to farming again, and one day he inherited...