Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many pickets ganged up on Everett docks that local police called help from Boston, charged the union line, dodged rocks, pitched tear gas bombs, jailed 36 strikers. The union put gas masks on its pickets, threatened to bring in enough seamen to trounce the police...
Colonel Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington. WPA's head man, well knew that the Woodrum committee's inquiry was the hottest pan WPA has yet been on, that, in the Senate, Jimmy Byrnes was quietly preparing to amend the Relief setup so as to require States and localities to contribute one-third of the cost. Awaiting his turn to testify before the Woodrum committee. Colonel Harrington spent a busy week getting 200.000 cut off his rolls to bring them down to 2,600.000. He knew this could not be done without local disturbances. Sure enough, in Flint. Mich...
Forty-six hours later Wilson Burgess signed off. In that time he had sent more than 900 messages, calls for rescue boats, Red Cross communications for medicine, food, doctors and nurses; orders from local undertakers for coffins; advice to boil water; warnings to looters; instructions to rescue pilots; news details of the hurricane that killed 136 people in the Westerly and nearby beach areas before it swept on up through New England...
...Fair announced that the million mark had been passed. Nonetheless, Grover Whalen last week declared himself "highly gratified." The Fair was still far from complete, and the weather inclement-the 40,000,000-odd admissions which the Fair needs to break even may still be easily achieved. To encourage local trade the Fair promised to enlarge picnic places, keep restaurant prices reasonable, provide more free entertainment...
...Catholic Church would be next on the rack-put there by Nazis covetous of its big German properties. Up to last week, however, Adolf Hitler was too busy on other fronts to pay much attention either to the Catholic or to the German State Protestant churches. Meanwhile Nazis continued locally to close down religious schools and chivy the clergy. Vexatiously chivied last week was the Archbishop of Salzburg, onetime confessor to Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary. The State elbowed the Archbishop out of his government-owned palace and the municipality ordered him to leave the local chapter house where...