Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the watered-down Left policies of moderate Premier Camille Chau-temps have been strongly endorsed by French voters at their local polls (TIME. Oct. 25), the Government set out last week to nip anti-Left revolt which may be budding in North Africa. Many of this colony's landed proprietors, while French in citizenship, are of Spanish. Italian. South American or even German birth. Almost to a man they are more conservative than the Communist. Socialist and moderate Radical Socialist parties which in coalition support the Chautemps Cabinet. Notoriously German are many tough mercenaries of the famed French...
...awful truth. Last week's decree ends one of the last, most treasured private rights of many Soviet citizens, that of being masters in their own homes to the extent that they have had a voice in a collective which was master. Hereafter control passes to the local Soviet, thus to the party, and the ordinary Russian is now going to find the question of his lodging turning on his political standing as a citizen faithful to Stalinism...
...private houses and estates they are building or have built in imitation of Stalin's (TIME. Oct. 4). The Kremlin's decree last week, while abolishing loans to cooperatives, carefully guards the housing rights of Communist bigwigs and anyone else who can get permission from a local Soviet to build himself a private house. Armed with such permission, on which the project must be certified as a "small house" (what constitutes "small" being undefined), the fortunate Communist can still apply for and get a five-year building loan from the State bank...
When the police-students return to their homes they instruct others. Most graduates are promoted to head safety squads or local accident bureaus. Best recommendation of the Kreml teachings are that reports from nine cities where bureaus were established last year show a drop in accident fatalities ranging from...
...board has leeway to judge quality. While the seven board members deliberated behind closed doors, it was reported that Board President Ghent Sanderford, former Governor James Ferguson's man, favored the Harcourt book, that another member was equally strong for an agent of Row, Peterson, a former local school superintendent who had helped nurse him through three years of tuberculosis...