Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Called for stepped-up missile programs, advanced aircraft production, nuclear submarines and cruisers, improved antisubmarine weapons, as well as "all necessary types of mobile forces to deal with local conflicts, should there be need...
...elective governor's advisory council, which survives from the Colonial period in three states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine) and originally was a buffer between the local assemblymen and the governor, appointed by the King...
...Little Local Difficulties." Next day, in a stiff letter to Macmillan, Thorneycroft wrote: "My reason can be shortly stated . . . The government itself must, in my view, accept the same measure of financial discipline as it seeks to impose on others." No less curtly, Macmillan replied: "You say that the [budget] for the next year must be the exact equivalent of the sum spent this year. The rigid application of this formula would do more harm than good . . . This is not a matter of popularity . . . This is a matter of good judgment ... I particularly regret that you should think it necessary...
Weiland admitted he had not formally discussed his idea with any of the local coaches, but Coaches Harry Cleverly of Boston University, John Kelley of Boston College and Jim Bell of Northeastern all gave their approval to the proposed change in the rules at the luncheon...
Cake sales and community dances brought assembly-men and city councilors before the local public. Clubs, women's luncheon groups, and cocktail party statesmen served notice on the Democratic machine that they were tired of grubby candidates the calibre of Jimmy Roosevelt and Richard Graves. Years '52-'56 were the years of building, the hours of the amateur and the liberal, November mornings with young men like Richard Richards. Issues became important...