Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much (and as each year passes the costs rise). In the last referendum in December, the organization also cried that the referendum, was scheduled during the week preceeding Christmas purposely to garner a small, and winning, vote for the school board. "The Shame Of It!" huge ads in the local paper screamed in black type. The School Board tried to reply with feeble statements from faculty members urging the new schools, but every statement they made served only to strengthen the split in city beliefs. Opposition cries that the Board was trying to push measures through without telling the townspeople...
...employees will be allowed to buy G.M. products at 25% off or at cost, whichever is lower. (One local demanded...
Stage Struck. Local girl making good on Broadway-the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
...last moment the U.A.W. made some concessions. But G.M. said that Reuther had merely trimmed his package demands "from a fantastic 73? an hour to an exorbitant and highly inflationary 48?." Altogether, G.M. was beset with 9,450 demands from U.A.W. locals-most of which will be settled by local G.M. and union officials. Some of them...
...Americans in Dublin unanimously cringe," said Ambassador Scott McLeod, "at the effect which American movies appear to create on the local population." Reading on through a poll (reported in Variety) of U.S. embassies throughout the world, Producer Walter Wanger found enough similar opinions to send him to Hollywood's defense. Said he: "Poppycock!" The world's peoples, he argued, welcome the fresh air of America's uncensored, unsubsidized films. Producer Sam (The Bridge on the River Rival) Spiegel was less certain. Asked if he thought the U.S. film industry was meeting its international responsibility, Spiegel replied...