Word: localism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven days the three of them traveled 1,000 miles through Texas, getting an idea of its spectacular industrial growth, seeing TIME'S string correspondents on the local newspapers, and talking to all kinds of Texans. In Houston, the Mayor's secretary told a lot about his city and Texas when he was asked how old the handsome City Hall was. He replied: "Oh, it's ten years old, but it's been well kept...
...since then the outlines of party purity have been blurred; in the matter of political spoils there are two schools of thought. One, led by bulky Bill Boyle, the Democrats' executive vice chairman, wants the rewards to go to the local leaders in each state who have been loyal through & through. The other is led by McGrath, who is worried about getting the Truman program through Congress, and wants to reward at least the milder Dixiecrats: Harry Truman needs their votes in Congress. Last week the two factions took their problems to the White House, accompanied by Vice President...
Berliners noted that, despite high-level peace parleys, the local Russians were being their usual selves. But experts in Russian behavior professed to detect a slight softening around the edges...
Good Will & $2. North Carolinians appreciate their orchestra, and more & more of them have been signing up in local branches of the symphony society which Ben and his wife Maxine have organized. Today, he has some 20,000 supporting members, and "even if most of them are $2 members, the support and good will are there...
First goal of the drive is to get Londoners to turn out for eight consecutive nights of revival meetings to be held in every local parish, beginning next week. Volunteers are assigned to 120 centers, each in charge of a specially trained priest. A typical center director is 36-year-old Rev. George Edmund Reindorp, whose parish includes some of the poorest and some of the most fashionable, sections of Westminster. Reindorp instructs his volunteer door-to-door canvassers always to knock three times-"once for the Father, once for the Son, and once for the Holy Ghost." He explained...