Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employes at Lansing should have a hand in saving the company and their jobs, wangled a place on the reorganized board for a director to be elected by the workers. Last week Reo's workers elected Guy Hack, who is also president of their C. I. O. local. To objections that he could not be Union President Hack and Company Director Hack at the same time, Guy Hack answered that he cannot hire and fire, therefore still retains his standing as a worker...
Theme of the fair was developed by Publicist Clyde Milner Vandeburg, who helped promote the recent Dallas and San Diego fiestas. He turned a futuristic, local conception into a glamorous fairyland motif with the slogan: "See All the West in '39." That brought in all California's neighbor States. It wowed the transportation companies. And it was based on the sound perception that, whereas whole families stayed in town for weeks to see San Francisco's marvelous 1915 exposition, the average stay of today's streamlined travelers is two and one half days...
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...Only 12% suggested death as a way out. Most of these callously told Lonely Man to shoot himself or jump off North Hill viaduct (favorite local suicide spot...
...take a second look when they pass a girl with soiled and sagging hose. The odds are that she is a runaway, homeless in the big city. Last year the Missing Persons Bureau, which does the biggest job of its sort, located all but 25 of the 2,059 local missing girls reported to it. Most of them turned up at employment and charity agencies, but an appreciable few went home in response to the Bureau's famed daily five minutes of missing persons alarms over "New York City's Own Station," WNYC, kindly father of this sort...