Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days age a group of American Legionnaires, wearing their Legion caps, and led by members of the local constabulary, broke up a meeting which was about to he addressed by Earl Browder, beating up those who resisted them with clubs and pistol-butts. According to newspaper reports, the attack was made following a cry of "All red-blooded Americans, come...
Also on the program is Dvorak's Violin Concerto with Ruth Posselt, a local artist who has been acquiring quite a reputation, as soloist. The closing number will be Schumann's Fourth Symphony in D minor, composed in 1841 and revised and renumbered...
...loaded with clothes and food for Spanish Reds. Several Soviet steamers are now plying back & forth with this exceedingly tame assistance to Spaniards engaged in a death struggle for Communism in their country. At Barcelona last week the Soviet steamer Zirayanin landed 3,000 tons of foodstuffs amid a local celebration by the city's dominant Anarchists, Communists and Syndicalists...
...York Herald Tribune and New York Times began putting the word "syphilis"into their headlines. By last week some 125 newspapers of some 100 communities had mentioned "venereal disease" or "syphilis" Though the Associated Press and United Press occasionally mention this plague in their dispatches, they report that local editors generally blue-pencil it. Symbolic of the Press's hesitancy to take up the Parran crusade in full is the fact that in most states a person described in print as syphilitic can successfully sue for libel...
Located on the highest peak in New England, this station has for four years served as a valuable weather sentry for New England, warning of the approach of air masses over this area, and thus aiding in the improvement of local forecasting...