Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edwin Russell, a prominent citizen of New Hyde Park, N. Y.* (pop.: 3,314) last week announced that a local library club had voted 13-to-2 to boycott Anne Morrow Lindbergh's book, Listen! The Wind! "I objected," ejaculated Mr. Russell, "to the purchase of this book, and as an American citizen refuse to be a partner to any operation that means royalty or profit to Mr. & Mrs. Lindbergh in the light of the recent publicity they have...
...temporarily at least. On his part, Foreign Minister Beck was reported to have agreed to: 1) formal annexation by Germany of Danzig, already completely Nazified but still nominally under League of Nations supervision; 2) special status for the Germans in Memel, still part of Lithuania, but actually ruled by local Nazis directed from Berlin...
Every time the Rose Bowl game came around, sportswriters reminded their readers of his monumental blunder. Even last fall, when Oakland féted Transcontinental Flyer Douglas Corrigan, the local entertainment committee dragged Roy Riegels from the asparagus farm where he had retired to avoid people, to shake hands publicly with the new Wrong-Way Champion...
...managing editor of the defunct Chicago Post, swart, husky Michael Wolf Straus used to "raise merry hell" with the furious but futile efforts of Reformer Harold L. Ickes to clean up Chicago politics. A reformer himself, Editor Straus also raised hell with other local celebrities like Al Capone. Later he went to Washington as a Hearst correspondent and in June 1933, when Secretary of the Interior Ickes wanted a "director of information" (i. e., head pressagent) for Interior and PWA, he chose hell-raising Mike Straus. Since then the nation has heard plenty from him about Honest Harold Ickes...
...Rural Electrification Administration, which is lending $140,000,000 this year to build farmers' cooperative power systems. REA organizes "energizing" celebrations with bands, games, electrical displays and fireworks on the day current is turned on for a new project. Most frequent stunt: selection of a pretty local miss as "Polly Power," to preside over the burial of a kerosene lamp...