Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House before he was elected Vice President, is Congress-hearted and Congress-minded. The inroads of executive power upon the powers of Congress have irked him sorely. He has fast friends and respectful admirers in both Houses. Since the Republican swing last fall, which weakened the Democratic party in local affairs* and made the Administration's majorities in Congress vulnerable to future coalitions of conservative Democrats and Republicans, John Garner is anxious not to have orders from the White House split the Democratic majorities in Congress. To avoid this, Democrats in Congress will have to provide their own leadership...
...victorious Republicans. In two States (California, Maryland) 9,700 Republicans were turned out by victorious Democrats. Mr. Garner was unimpressed by an election chart, said to have been prepared by the Jurizarlat. which purported to show that the New Deal's set-backs in November were largely local defeats, hinging on local issues, scandals, personalities...
Major Chester E. Sargent will sponsor his varsity malletmen in a match with the local Satirev trio as the regular Commonwealth Armory League begins its three-month season tomorrow night...
Pleasuredom. Local precedent for the Fair builders was San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, a glittering tour de jorce by the smartest Beaux-Arts architects of the day. Held to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. it appropriately linked East Coast and West Coast on its board of architects. Tenderly remembered in San Francisco, the Panama-Pacific Exposition had no influence for the good on U. S. architecture...
Every community has its doctor, lawyer, priest or local wise man to whom his neighbors take their troubles. But people who want their problems to go to headquarters write to the Voice of Experience. Last week the "Voice," Dr. Marion Sayle Taylor, got his six-millionth letter and began another year of broadcasting MBS stations under a renewed contract with Lydia Pinkham...