Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minneapolis Bourbons the demise of the Journal was a death blow. For years it had fought their fight, played down their financial alley. Foe of the late Governor Floyd B. Olson and his Farmer-Labor Party, it was stanch Republican, anti New Deal. Rich with local department store advertising in the lush 1920s, it began to sicken when Depression I set in. Handsome, silver-haired Publisher Carl Jones (an amateur card-trick expert) shuffled his journalistic cards to no avail. To the Star went his acrid Managing Editor George H. Adams (later to return...
...Supreme Court handed down a decision that should have been not only big news for San Francisco and Oakland newspapers but a story to warm the cockles of any good reporter's heart. The San Francisco Chronicle reported the decision, passed up the story behind it. No other local paper even mentioned it, nor did any press service carry a line on its wire. The story...
...water during the 1900 exposition, have since ferried some 42,000,000 beer-bibbing, brioche-munching joyriders downriver to suburban Suresnes and back. Three francs (about 8?) bought pleasant conveyance for travelers with business at in-between stops, all-day outings for romancing youngsters, tourists bargain-shopping for local color. Tremulous were the moonlit nights with the sighing of accordion bands from riverside bals musettes, whispery the riverside dingles with the billing & cooing of pic-necking couples. As Bear Mountain boats to Manhattan outers were the Seine fly boats to Parisians...
Noble-browed Polar Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 59, published a book about Iceland (Iceland: The First American Republic), joined Local 537 of the New York College Teachers Union, because "as yet there is no union for polar explorers...
Promptly Poet Karinthy's doctor wife, Aranka, hustled him off to the Stockholm clinic of Dr. Herbert Olivecrona, a disciple of Yale's famed Neurologist Harvey Gushing. Since surgeons usually use local anesthetics for brain operations (ether may congest brain blood vessels), Poet Karinthy remained acutely aware of everything that happened to him. Last year, he published the first patient's-eye-view account of a brain operation in medical history. This week the English translation of Karinthy's remarkable book appeared...