Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...viewed as difficult and of questionable value, the Council has erred. One of the six plans suggested at the last meeting could have been adapted to give the Council the same degree of University representation that it now has, and, at the same time utilize the Houses as local units through which the Council might maintain a more direct contact with the individuals who make up the College...
...marked Ambassador Davies and Daughter Emlen start this week on a quick swing in their private car around industrial centres within 600 miles of Moscow. Mrs. Davies remains in Moscow as she is "not interested. To avoid indigestion, the Ambassador has informed local Soviet authorities that they will not eat outside their car, thus saving their Russian hosts the cost of local banquets for the U. S. Ambassador. He will feed as many local bigwigs as possible, also five U. S. correspondents. Next the Davieses will hurry to Manhattan, embark on their yacht for the Coronation (see p. 19), thence...
...Event of the week in every part of the Soviet Union was a local speech, duplicated by thousands of orators, echoing the keynote sounded at Moscow on the 19th Anniversary of the Red Army by Defense Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov. The official keynote: "The two countries which most threaten peace-Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan-have made no secret of their plans to attack the Soviet Union. . . . They are viciously sharpening their swords!" This was followed by what was said to be historically the first intimation that the Red Army, always described by Communist orators as "purely defensive," now seems...
...side of the law. As dramaturgy, the device of having Bank-robber Hanson (Craig Reynolds; and associates take refuge in the barn which is G-man headquarters, may smack of the coincidental; as fantasy, it blends properly with the hayloft fantasies of the Penrod age. Helped by the local constabulary, the kids round up the yeggs. Blackamoor Verman finds a new home, Penrod's dad makes peace with Banker Bitts. Billy Mauch is the boy who played the young Anthony Adverse. He has an equally talented twin, Bobby Mauch, whose mother, according to Hollywood legend, cannot tell them apart...
Last year despite the Federal Communications Commission's investigation and resulting long distance rate reductions (TIME, June 8), A. T. & T. showed $9.35 per share. The Bell System as a whole took in $994,000,000 from operations, about two-thirds on local service, one-third on long distance. Other income amounted to $28,864,000, contributed largely by Western Electric Co., the equipment unit. Meantime the number of telephones had climbed back to within 740,000 of the all-time high. The year, wrote President Gifford, had been one of progress "in which the public, the employes...