Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House was in no hurry at all to take up the Senate-passed bill to ladle out $1 billion in easy-term loans for local public works. Nor was there any audible clamor for overriding the President's rivers and harbors pork-barrel veto or for drawing up any new public-works programs...
...U.A.W. hustled the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, argued that the Taft-Hartley law gave the National Labor Relations Board sole jurisdiction, that chaos would result if local courts granted relief to non-strikers caught up in union battles with management...
...short-term hope for avoiding a damaging fight is the possibility that the state legislature will convene by September, vote a local-option plan for integration. Arlington County school-board members, polled privately, have said they would vote to integrate if an option plan allowed them to do so. But the legislature would have to be called by Segregationist Almond, who last week said: "We have state laws which we believe to be intact, and they will be applied in an honest effort to save public education from chaos...
...news to Americans. Nor will anyone argue with the need for better schools, parks, sanitation systems, traffic control. But having pointed his bat at the bleachers, Galbraith steps away from the plate. He never takes a full swing at drafting the program that he implies: that the state, local and federal governments must take a larger role in society. What Galbraith suggests concretely is much more conservative. He believes that the economy can absorb up to 4,000,000 unemployed, proposes a sliding scale for unemployment compensation. He feels that use of the sales tax should be expanded to provide...
Stage Struck. Local girl making good on Broadway-the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April...