Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forces of fanaticism, the inglorious rout of the rabble-rousers. In the North, in the South and far beyond the Mississippi, demagogue after demagogue fell before the crushing blast of inspired votes. James M. Curley, friend and participating member of the society of jail-birds, whose notorious record in local politics will go down in the annals of the state, recieved his just due; an over-whelming rebuff--the mandate of Massachusetts...
There were cheers in the local Coliseum when "Alfalfa Bill" Murray rose to introduce the Nominee as a composite of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln. James A. Garfield and Calvin Coolidge "plus a pleasant personality." Returning the compliment, Nominee Landon listed the onetime Governor first among famed anti-New Deal Democrats who had espoused his cause, called on "real Democrats" throughout the land to rally...
Meanwhile U. S. correspondents arriving in Ipswich were fascinated alike by the innocence of the local citizenry and the naughty talk of lawyers down from London. The latter's conversations were flavored with much the tone of a poem some of them read with gusto to one another from the current London New Statesman and Nation. Excerpts...
...crack steelworker. Boss of his gang, he put up steel on Manhattan's Barbizon-Plaza and Pierre Hotels, Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., and Bank of Manhattan buildings. River side Church, Lincoln Hospital. He is a member of the International Association of Bridge, Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers, Local No. 40. He and his German wife have two young sons. He likes to talk about steelwork, his sons, his dog. He is boisterous, friendly, stubborn, generous. In Iron Men he shinnies up a vertical girder, using only his hands and his knees. During rehearsals...
...Apparently only interested in such readers as are willing to work. Author Faulkner has compared story telling with the action of a man dealing cards out of a pack, and unobtrusively dropping the joker. The cards of little value are the routine stuff of fiction-descriptions, analysis of motives, local color-and the joker is the key that gives meaning to them...