Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today I got from my local newsstand the Jan. 4 issue of TIME, on the front cover of which appears the picture of "Woman of the Year," Mrs. Wallis Simpson. I wish to be among the first to congratulate you on your selection of this picture, for the first issue of TIME...
...slip of paper pasted to it. Each Chelanite who gets possession of any of the bills during the period will put his signature and the date on the slips before he passes them on. He will also pay a 2% transaction tax into the Townsend Test Fund at the local bank. Thus, if the $200 travels through 50 transactions during the 30-day period, a penurious oldster will have been provided with $200 worth of goods and services, merchants and townsmen will have done $10,000 worth of business and the Townsend Test Fund will be $200 richer. Sponsor Lamb...
...full of Bronsteins and Rosenfelds. Among these kinsmen some soon appeared who helped Mr. & Mrs. Trotsky find a suitable three-room flat on Vyse Avenue, The Bronx, enabled them to buy $200 worth of furniture on the installment plan by signing as endorsers their promise to pay. The local Russian-Jewish newspaper, Novy Mir ("New World"), took on Comrade Trotsky as an assistant editor at $15 per week, and although his spoken English was extremely halting his sharp eye quickly took the measure of Manhattan, his sharper pen promptly produced this editorial in the most brilliant Bronstein vein...
...looting U. S. capitalists discreetly, a much greater number of Mexican landlords are notified from time to time by the Government that their estates have been taken from them (in exchange for what the Mexican Congress calls "ironclad, guaranteed bonds" which they must accept) and parceled out among the local peasants. A Mexican peasant, once established on such land, is by no means sure that he will not be visited by a landlord's lynching party who may cut off his ears and throw them in his face. Incidents of this kind have their counterpart in irate bands...
This will be the last appearance of the Crimson in the local pool until February 20, when they will face Brown...