Word: localism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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City Fathers. In Rowley Regis, England, the town council voted to install violet street lamps after local girls complained that the old yellow ones were unflattering and thus a hindrance to romance...
...Henry Clay . . ." It was like old times. At every operational stop, cheering, pushing crowds gathered around the back platform and local dignitaries clambered aboard. Harry Truman made neighborly small talk. At Cumberland, Md., he recalled that Fort Cumberland was the first milestone on the old National Road. "And I helped lay it out-me and Henry Clay," said Truman playfully...
...aero mechanics, however, proved surprisingly indigestible. They called off their strike and set out to fight Beck with billboard displays, radio programs and full-page newspaper advertisements. They described Beck's newly founded local at Boeing as the "foul-hatched, illegitimate offspring of a power-crazed dictator . . ." They also had the impertinence to use heavy-handed humor in bearding the heavy-handed czar. One ad featured a drawing of an old-fashioned privy which was entitled the "Beckhouse." Another pleaded: "Don't go Beckward...
Then Hugo Sims cocked a campaigner's ear for his own education. Stout, grey Mayor Angelo Stoudermire, a clerk in Rickenbacker's store, talked about what Sims already knew-how the failure of the local cotton crop had hit hard. "When the small farmers get hit," said Angelo, "it hurts the stores most. The big farmers don't buy any more in hard times than in good." Jesse Huggins, a spare man in old Army clothes, who had been picking pecans until Sims drove up, didn't think much of the Fair Deal. "We call...
From South Africa to New Mexico the University owns property in many obscure spots or else has "permanent" research centers located in distant communities. The term "Harvard" has a local meaning to natives of Stratford-on-Avon, the Island of Yap in the Pacific, and the Pyramid region of Egypt...