Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women looked carefully over their husbands' shoulders to find the right place to make their mark; the men were as fervently convinced as ever that P.R.I, allegiance and patriotism are one and the same thing. The only glimmer of hope for P.A.N. was in a few tight, undecided local races that might boost the P.A.N. total in Congress (from the present six seats in the House of Deputies, none in the Senate...
...bathe and sun. But 25 years back, the quiet town was invaded. Garish clubs sprang up along the beach, and gambling tables ran far into the night, presided over by burly, heavy-set men in sharp suits and loud ties. The town's old inhabitants protested, but the local Kellam political machine blandly looked the other way. Six years ago one scrappy, stubborn real-estate man named Joseph Willcox Dunn finally got so mad that he started his own weekly, called it the Princess Anne Free Press, set the slogan, "The Truth Shall Make You Free," in his masthead...
...stakes were high. When the local unit of the American Newspaper Guild struck last month against the Philadelphia Inquirer of Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications, the newsmen's union was fighting for survival in the city. With the Bulletin unorganized and a suspended contract at the Daily News, the Inquirer was the Guild's last stronghold in Philadelphia...
Last week Gleason was gleefully passing around a story sent out by the local bureau of United Press International, which had bought the fake interview as the cool truth, and forthwith dispatched it without credit to Gleason's column. Said the U.P.I, story: "San Francisco's famed 'beatsters' are shaving off their beards, Jazz Musician Shorty Pederstein explains, 'The beard has lost its effect and is now respectable. To wear a beard is no distinction. Not to wear a beard is the strongest pattern of nonconformity...
...Guild, only four months old, is the creation of 49-year-old Trumpeter Cecil F. Read. In 1956 Read led a revolt of Hollywood's Local 47, A.F.M. He protested the handling of the Music Performance Trust Funds, which collect phonograph-record and TV movie music royalties to use for unemployment benefits for the entire A.F.M. membership. Read complained that although performances by the 15,000 Hollywood musicians provide the Trust Funds with more than 50% of their revenues, only 4% of the revenues ever gets back to Local 47. Expelled from the A.F.M.. Trumpeter Read recruited musicians...