Word: localism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Looking around wildly for some way to save money with a minimum of local political pain, the House Appropriations Committee last week seized on a favorite target: foreign aid. Last week it whacked the European recovery appropriation down $629 million to $4.6 billion, and sliced $150 million out of the $1 billion appropriation for U.S.-occupied areas. Promptly, the alarms sounded...
Young Louis always captained the baseball teams. He dived from the highest branch by the swimming hole on Tinker's Creek He led his class in high school. At 15, he took over the local Epworth League and made it into a tri-city organization which embraced two neighboring towns. In the fall of 1908,17-year-old Louis Johnson, handsome, strapping and 6 ft.1 in. tall, descended on the University of Virginia at Charlottesville...
...even older world, far-off Karachi, members of the Aga Khan's religious sect paraded, singing, through the streets, to honor the wedding. One Ismaili Moslem suggested that Rita take the local name of Rehmat Khanum, which means Lady of Blessings from the Almighty...
...System, however, is not dead yet. It simply hasn't had a chance. Given effective publicity and a mammoth card-selling campaign next fall, together with the recruiting of many more local stores, there is a good possibility that the Purchase Card System will revive and bloom. Otherwise, it will expire, . . . and soon...
...Local savants are indulging in their annual June custom of trying to pick the man who will cop Honorary Degrees in the Commencement stakes...