Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squash team goes through the initial games of the schedule, all five regular teams go into action this week. Games this week will all be with aggregations from the local Massachusetts State Squash Racquets Association...
With a weekly local schedule starting the week end after the Holiday as a prelude to the Army match February 8, the first of the intercollegiate series, Capt. Palmer is optimistic at whipping a hard hitting trio into shape...
...Littauer's fine gift is for the declared purpose of promoting the 'science and art of government administration' and to improve our 'public administration -- national, state, and local -- for the welfare of our people.' The terms of the gift also include the provision that the 'new school shall be organized and conducted not merely to train technical specialists, but to educate men in a broad way for public service...
...Industrial Section, who attends to such matters as having Russian engineers, after a factory breakdown, "shot for sabotage." Commissar Terenty Deribas of the Ogpu Far East Section, perhaps its most romantic branch. In Mongolia and other nomadic border lands the natives are under an impression, perhaps mistaken, that a local chieftain whom the Ogpu considers superfluous often dies from the prick of a poisoned nail in his saddle. Commissar Stanislas Redens of the Ogpu Moscow Section. Commissar Leonid Zakovsky of the Ogpu Leningrad Section. Vsevolod Balitsky of the Ogpu Ukranian Section. Decidedly able, Commissar-General Yagoda is credited with having...
Fish on the Steeple is laid in a little town, 60 miles west of Nashville, that has 14 street lights, four churches, a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, a large number of local drug addicts, bootleggers, bad girls, small-town eccentrics. Every few years its inhabitants burn down part of the town for the insurance. Central character is Shackle Redmon, tall, 17-year-old, dirty-faced boy who worked in his father's brickyard, occasionally got into knock-down fights with the old man, fell violently in love with the village heiress. Dorothy Hopper had been called "Pete...