Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thus last week the richest man in Bartlesville, Okla. (pop. 14,763) made news by paying off the debts of the town's five principal churches. He, President Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum Corp., a Methodist, had last Christmas directed the town's leading banker to investigate local church finances. Last week, while other Oklahomans were debating whether Judas hanged himself on a redbud tree, Oilman Phillips quietly sent checks totaling $63,000 to the First Methodist Church, the First Presbyterian Church, the First Baptist Church, the United Brethren Church and St. Luke's Episcopal Church...
Allen was a young rebel. He wanted to shatter conservative midwestern Jordanstown to bits, fit the pieces to a humaner pattern. So did his pal Dave. When Allen scraped together enough money to buy the local paper he proceeded to set the town on its ear. Subscriptions fell off but needy friends rallied to Allen's cause. Jordanstown's bosses dropped Allen a hint to mind his manners, but he went right ahead. Climax of his crusade was a parade of the underdogs, led by Dave and Allen, to the new meeting house built by painful comradely effort...
...steps which the Council is taking lead in the right direction. A faculty advisory board might be persuaded to offer its services for coaching, assisting in deciding winners, and generally playing wet nurse to the organization; and the minor outside debates to be held before local groups in Cambridge and Boston should foster the interest of many hitherto kept out of the picture. Better distribution of prize money is also a magnet of potential drawing power...
...begins at home, and not until the Council directs its appeal to the talent which lies now dormant in the various Houses can the Debating Council hope to plant deep roots in the soil of the college. It may be pleasant to suck the honeyed nectar of applause from local Junior Leagues from time to time, but only from audiences of Harvard students can come the support which the Council needs. It the Council should aim its rays at this untapped source, it would immeasurably improve its chance of growing to full stature and providing "an attractive and worthwhile extra...
Following a meeting of Cambridge business men Monday, where local merchants voiced discontent at constant traffic congestion in the Square, Captain Canney and his chief, Timothy F. Leahy, released their intended plan of action and said signs will be changed "by sometime next month...