Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interested in knowing that although in two elections the electorate of the local Irrigation District voted 10-to-1 and 24-to-1 to go into the power business, our company is more than pleased with the business it has held so far in the competition between government and private business...
Congressional elections, his group would undertake an expert survey of the electorate's real feeling and "mandate." This was in definite defiance of Franklin Roosevelt's comfortable theory that the 1938 election results were an agglomerate of local issues & personalities, not evidence of a national trend...
...home, a certain future went to German nationals, naturalized immigrants and even native-born U. S. citizens. Just what the response has been, neither German consular officials nor Nazi organizations now recruiting in the U. S. would say last week. Inquirers had some luck in Milwaukee, only because a local Nazi was so indiscreet as to recruit too many at one time and get himself into the newspapers...
City Councilman Michael A. ("Mickey the Dude") Sullivan reentered Harvard's political arena last Saturday night when in his capacity as a local truckman he exported a symbolical load of sand, a large horse-shoe floral wreath, three canaries and six pigeons from the Independents, conservative political group to a dance in the Hotel Statler given by the Affiliated Jewish Youth Organization to raise money to send Jewish refugees to Palestine...
...able graduate of several big city newsrooms, Publisher Anderson repeatedly urges his cattle-raising readers to go in for purebred stock and baits the power company for lower electric rates. He has lately installed a one-man photographic and engraving department that feeds his papers shots of local rabbit hunters, sorority initiations, farmers' wives in town to buy perfume. Best-played stories of a typical recent week in the Anderson papers: annual Chamber of Commerce meeting, opening of two new hosiery mills, the tale of a city girl who came to town, scratched her neck with a razor...