Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...request of the Cambridge Police the University today is sending automobile operation questionnaires to the 6,500 Harvard students who are not residents of Massachusetts, as part of its new "peace with honor" policy toward the local administration...
...Jersey traffic policemen that he would like to make every mother's son of them a sergeant in the Swedish Navy. Last week each of the 72 received from the Swedish Embassy a gold pin emblazoned with the royal coat of arms, and several telephoned the local consulate to make sure of their new rank. The consul replied that Bertil, though grateful, had a sense of humor: even the Swedish Navy has no sergeants...
Democracy in the Making, by Hugh Russell Fraser (Bobbs-Merrill, $3.50), is history written with journalistic liveliness. It pictures in swift chapters the fight of Jackson and Tyler against the United States Bank. Packed with savory local color, Democracy in the Making makes the Jackson-Tyler era seem closer at hand than the Harding administration. Typical nugget of unfamiliar information: In 1837, during the Canadian rebellion. Englishmen seized the U. S.-owned Caroline on Lake Erie, killed the crew, sent the ship over Niagara Falls...
...problems were easy; the scarcity of available halls--and the rents charged for them--were appalling. Then, after weeks of search, when a satisfactory location had finally been found and the lease was about to be signed, the Cambridge Savings Bank, for no apparent reason, suddenly backed down. Possibly local restaurant interests were not unconnected with this decision...
...date University authorities have denied the Committee permission to distribute piedge cards and to collect contributions at the gathering. With all local colleges placarded, the sponsors announced last night that they expect a capacity audience...