Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...property to Hutcheson kinsmen at token rates, spending union funds in efforts to bribe state officials to quash the bribery indictment, dipping into the multimillion-dollar "special organizing" fund for uncounted amounts, destroying union records of the takings. The suit demanded court protection for the complaining members and their local union (Local 101, Baltimore) against the Carpenter practice of strong-arming down all opposition, begged the court to set a receivership over Carpenter property to run the union's affairs...
...peasants, Nehru displays none of the perfervid oratory of the demagogue, and could not if he wanted to, since he speaks only one Indian language, Urdu, with any proficiency. Ordinarily he gives long, rambling, extemporaneous talks in English, full of digressions and schoolmasterly asides, that are translated into the local dialect by interpreters. Vast crowds of up to a million assemble to hear him, but the contact is more emotional than verbal. What happens is called by Indians darshan, communion. The multitude is somehow comforted and reassured not by the words but by the presence of Nehru. And Nehru himself...
...municipal majorities in eleven major Burmese cities, and in Mandalay, Burma's second largest city, U Nu's forces cleaned out the Stables with a vengeance. U Nu candidates, expecting to win 20 seats in the municipal corporation, swept all 35 seats. Though the elections were local ones, all signs pointed to U Nu's return to power...
...predecessor, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike. But soon Dahanayake was surrounded by chaos with a capital C. Hardly had Bandaranaike been buried when dark rumors spread that colleagues of "Daha" himself had plotted the killing. Daha's Finance Minister was under a cloud, and his glamorous female Minister of Housing and Local Government was jailed on charges of complicity in the assassination. Moreover, Ceylon's economy was in bad shape, and Daha's chaotic Sri Lanka Freedom Party was so badly split that the regime survived one no-confidence motion by only one vote. Last week, after 70 days...
Apropos of your "pro football in the Stadium" editorial, the CRIMSON may be reassured that the HAA does not charge a flat ($4-$5) tariff to watch the local eleven. There is a General Admission rate of $2 to $2.50, depending on the contest, for all but the Yale game...