Word: localism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unable to seat the crowd in a local tobacco warehouse, we moved to the Rocky Mount Ballpark (pictured but not mentioned in your story). Then it rained. Under a canopy rigged by attaching the home plate canvas covering to a 300-ft. cable swung from the roof of the stadium, Dr. Swalin and his orchestra performed to 6,000 white and Negro county school kids, bettering by 3,000 any previous audience...
More was at stake than "Zillie" (who retains his seat in Parliament despite his expulsion from the party). Within the last fortnight over 60 Labor M.P.s have flouted direct party orders in voting on two major issues. With the recent string of Labor defeats in local contests, and a general election looming up next year, Attlee was at last forced to discipline the rebels. As the most cantankerous of them, Zilliacus had to go first...
...dissenting teachers on the Queens faculty were soon the object of much attention. On May 3, James A. Roe and Frank Kenna, respectively the local Democratic and Republican leaders, asked an investigation of the faculty...
...Union, a local of the American Federation of Teachers, AF of L, declared that the criterion for the government scholarships, as for faculties, should be "scholarly competence and promise," and not "political beliefs or affiliations...
...local chapter was first asked to disassociate itself voluntarily - from the state and national A.Y.D. This it refused to do. The university's ban of the A.Y.D. followed, based on 1) the evidence that the local group's purposes were different from those under which it had been granted recognition as a campus activity group and 2) the evidence that it was subject to the influence or control of an outside political organization. There was no connection between the university's action in this matter and any appropriation measure...