Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offer: in return for giving up $100 million worth of federal grants-in-aid they now get for vocational-education work and water-purification plants, the states should get the chance to collect $150 million of the revenue that the U.S. now takes in from its 10% tax on local telephone calls...
...Since World War II, the total tax take of state and local governments has risen 3½ times as fast as the federal take...
...proprietor, Gustav Allgauer, 54, an up-from-busboy owner-boss of three big Chicago restaurants, was one of the few restaurant men in the city who had talked at length with investigators from Arkansas' John McClellan's Senate labor-management investigating committee. Subject of conversations: mob-dominated locals -called in local argot "The Miscellaneous" -of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. restaurant workers' union. Not only did Gus Allgauer have a six-year record of dealings with the Miscellaneous, but he had a bookful of canceled checks to prove...
...sweetheart" terms. In return for the right to collect dues from the captive thousands of A. & P. clerks, the butchers' union signed a 22-month contract committing the employees to work 45 hours a week. A month later, in return for some minor concessions on welfare benefits, the local boss of the butchers, Max Block, secretly agreed to extend the contract for 33 months longer, still at the old hours...
...Burden of France. In France's brief day of fighting in World War II, De Gaulle, with a hastily scraped-up mechanized division, inflicted upon the Germans two of the rare local defeats they suffered in invading France. Then, when the bemedaled marshals bowed to Hitler, the hulking, self-conscious brigadier general, whose very name was unknown to most of his countrymen, solemnly concluded that "at this moment, the worst in her history, it was for me to assume the burden of France." Fleeing to England, De Gaulle arrived "stripped of everything, like a man standing on the shores...