Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Ironside demands no fixed fee for his services is no news to those who remember that his family was supported for many a year by his earnings in a small local book shop. After a full day's labor Ironside would preach evenings and still find time to prepare three services for Sunday...
...companion Chevrolet plant which depends on it for bodies. Few hours later a sit-down at Flint's Fisher Plant No. i closed it and crippled the Buick assembly plant which it supplies. Out of work in Flint alone were 14,600 General Motors employes; the local U. A. W. organizer called for $100,000 to finance the strike. Followed sit-downs in G. M.'s Guide Lamp Division at Anderson, Ind., its Fisher and Chevrolet plants at Norwood, Ohio. As U. S. factories closed for the long New Year's weekend, nine G. M. plants with...
...month from opium. All China was meanwhile being violently jolted out of thinking about the recent kidnapping and into thinking about the drug evil. In one of the most lurid scare-campaigns in Asiatic history, coffins were hastily knocked together and balanced on top of Chinese city walls, while local authorities shouted that anybody caught selling, buying or smoking opium was going to be executed beginning New Year's Day. In Peiping alone 100,000 executions were promised, and 5,000 bloodthirsty persons went to the public execution ground outside the old city walls to see heads topple...
...Such talk may be little more than pre-nuptial fantasy, but at any rate the citizens of the state can rest assured that he will not sink to the Curley level. Mr. Curley can depart in peace, sure that his leave-taking will be unwept, unhonored, and unsung in local history, except by writers of verse with unusually long and scurrilous memories...
With the inauguration of two-station broadcasts, WOR and WGN formed Mutual Broadcasting System on Oct. 1, 1934. They agreed to seek advertisers who wanted to utilize both stations, but not to interfere with each other's local programs. WOR and WGN also began exchanging sustaining (noncommercial) programs. Alfred Justin McCosker, president of WOR, became chairman of M. B. S.; Wilbert E. Macfarlane, vice president and business manager of the Chicago Tribune, became president. Mr. Macfarlane has been interested in WGN since the Tribune opened its station in 1925, has refused to let the chains dominate its policies. First...