Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state would have to do was to pass a law giving "an agency" powers which to Secretary Wallace seemed sufficient to carry out the purposes of the Soil Conservation Act. The Secretary would then "approve" the state's agency (which in most cases is expected to be the local crop control board of the late AAA) and provide the funds for the benefits it is to pay farmers. States which do not "cooperate" will get no benefits after two years. State laws, once passed, cannot be questioned on the ground that the Federal Government's powers are limited...
...Until the Supreme Court implied in its argument a few days ago that agriculture is of mere local concern, no authoritative body in this land has made a contention contrary to regarding it as of national concern...
...years. Last month when the anti-Roosevelt Congress of "Goober Democrats" gathered at Macon (TIME, Feb. 10), on each & every seat lay a copy of The Georgia Woman's World, a four-page throw-away devoted largely to photographs of President & Mrs. Roosevelt consorting with Negroes. Promptly the local WTAdministration announced that Brother Alexander Howell had used WPA labor to wrap and mail copies of The Georgia Woman's World. Last week's indictment followed...
...boned Nazis and heaved aboard. Surviving relatives of the corpse were ushered ceremoniously into the train, and with them rode a Guard of Honor as the special set out for their family home in Schwerin. At all large stations the funeral car stopped opposite a band and local Nazis sang the Horst...
Although the local papers made quite a stir about the filming of "Ah Wilderness" in Grafton last spring, the finished product just moves quietly across the screen as the most perfect portrayal of family life we have seen...