Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donald Snow Knowlton, heads of a Cleveland publicity firm, have received $323,000 from the American Iron and Steel Institute and individual Little Steel companies. The La Follette committee produced "personal and confidential" documents revealing the efforts of Edgar S. Bowerfind, Hill & Knowlton representative in Birmingham, Ala., to make local newspapers see the rectitude of Republic Steel Corp.'s position on labor problems. The technique, involving no innovations, consisted of visits to local editors and pressure "judiciously exerted" through advertisers...
...subtlest performer for Hill & Knowlton was George Ephraim Sokolsky, author, lecturer, industrial consultant. Some of Mr. Sokolsky's lecturing was done at "civic progress meetings" arranged and paid for by local employers but publicly sponsored by "neutral" groups. Since his return seven years ago from a varied journalistic career in the Far East, able, intelligent Publicist Sokolsky has become a one-man intellectual front for conservative capital. His principal outlets are a weekly syndicated column which appears on the editorial page of the Republican New York Herald Tribune and a weekly radio program sponsored by the National Association...
...Each State has baffling local problems. Example: In Washington, regulations against the transfer of teachers from county to county prevent 5,000 workers at Grand Coulee Dam from having classes for which they have petitioned...
...denied to those who give nothing. About one-third pay tithes in full, another third in part. Tithes, which Mormons claim brought in more money last year than ever before, operate the enormous Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, finance missions and schools, pay 60% toward construction of local chapels and tabernacles. And tithes are intended to pay for part of the Mormon Church Security Program, widely publicized after its establishment two years ago as a rugged, pioneering, common-sense way to get self-respecting Mormons off Federal relief...
...repeated Friday services, which totaled 315. Four cathedrals were holding novenas, and four more planned to. Novena Notes, Father Keane's clubby weekly, had a circulation of 145,000. Each church requesting it and paying the cost of printing could obtain an edition containing a page of local notes. Churches could also buy special prayer books for the novena, 10? each...