Word: localism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporting for work as usual one day last week, employees of Houston's Crown Central Petroleum Corp. refinery settled down to hours of writing and rewriting lists of "grievances" against the company. It was a new sit-down technique. Explained cocky Arthur Hajecate, secretary-treasurer of the Houston local of the C.I.O.'s Oil Workers International Union: there is a loophole in the Taft-Hartley Act which permits employees to compose their gripes on company time...
British sailors in their stiff white duck hats, Frenchmen in their flat caps with red pom-poms and Dutchmen in their black streamered hats all but drank the local pubs dry. Field Marshal Montgomery, chief of Western Union's joint command, held a reception on board H.M.S. Implacable. The Netherlands' Prince Bernhard gave a cocktail party aboard the Tromp, which was named after one of the few admirals of any nation who soundly beat the British on the seas...
...Then the re-indoctrination for the U.S.-brand of democracy went awry. Some 500 of the repatriates were shuttled on to their native Kyoto. To the old city's railway station trooped a crowd of official greeters. All was carefully planned, including the serving of tea by the local women's club. But Kyoto's Communists moved into the party and made it their own show...
...flamboyant fashion, Chicago had given a lusty preview of the national anti-VD campaign which opened last week in more than 300 cities in 28 states. The U.S. Public Health Service, helping to plan and synchronize the local efforts, had arranged with the Communication Materials Center of New York's Columbia University Press to provide posters, car cards, window displays, pamphlets and match books...
...such a fat financial cushion. When Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft and Mrs. Mary Emery died, the purse strings that had long supported the opera were cut. Public support all but failed. In 1934, the wealthy patrons were looking for a way to drop their expensive hobby. The A.F.M. local agreed to take it up. Since then, Oscar F. Hild, the union's president, has run the show. One of his shrewdest ideas: the Young Friends of Summer Opera, whose teen-age members serve as money raisers and ushers, and so spend free nights at the opera. Hild expects...