Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prefer private to public charities. Relief has been proved to be more efficiently administered through local than federal or state bureaus. Wages should be so low that workers will be glad to return to private employment. We favor depriving all persons on relief of the right to vote, until they again become self-supporting...
...average American, with an income ranging from $400 to $2500 a year, must necessarily subject almost all his expenditures to the sales tax through local expenditures, he explained. The rich man avoids the tax by outside purchases. He pays no tax on money spent for rent or travel, or on such portion of his income which he does not spend...
...Perfidy." During his entire career the A. F. of L. president's franchise as a labor leader has been a union card that he holds in the Coshocton (Ohio) local of John Lewis' United Mine Workers. After splitting with C. I. O. the A. F. of L. started to play ball with a rival union, Progressive Miners of America, and John Lewis threatened to kick Miner Green out of the United Mine Workers for "treason." Since Mr. Green's home town local, whose financial secretary is Mr. Green's brother, would probably stand...
...days when tradition made it obligatory for U. S. honeymooners to go to Niagara Falls, they did their most effective mooning at the local Wonder of the World from 1,248-ft. Falls View Bridge. Closest to the falls of the three bridges that span the Niagara River in that area, it was something of a wonder itself. It trembled in the wind, shook under heavy loads, but for 39 years managed to keep from crashing into the 200-ft. canyon below...
Consternation reigned in a Brooklyn theatre last week. The leading lady in a revival of White Cargo had three beads on her scanties and one of her beads, it was discovered, had been sewed on by nonunion hands. Local 21313, Theatrical Costume Workers Union of the American Federation of Labor immediately threw cordons of pickets around the theatre for two nights. On the third night a settlement was reached. The settlement: the offending bead was plucked off, the part played thenceforth in two beads...