Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dismissed right & left last week were Soviet newspaper reporters whose stories recently caused dismissal from the Party as "Trotskyites" of veteran local Bolsheviks who are now staging comebacks and getting vengeance on their recent accusers...
Fishing Issue. Despite these intrusions, Maine was managing to get considerable local fun out of its election until early last week. Governor Brann never so much as mentioned the New Deal, while Republicans harped on it as the major issue...
...daily with Mrs. Simpson to the office of Herr Professor Doktor Heinrich Neumann who last year treated the Prince of Wales for inflammation of the middle ear, this year took X-rays of King Edward's ears, treated them for the after-effects of a cold. The local British Legation issued twittery communiques which tended to alarm public opinion in Great Britain by assiduously insisting that nothing was the matter and that Dr. Neumann "found the King's ears in the same excellent condition as last year." Sensible Mrs. Simpson took the King out to buy warmer clothing...
...doctors gathered to hear the nation's foremost cancer specialists discuss what is known and what is not known about the second most common cause of death in the U. S.* Expenses of this cancer symposium were paid by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation which thereby saved local doctors about $75 each...
...dogma on utilities. Carl Krecke, official head of the German delegation, expressed himself against too much governmental restriction on utilities. Switzerland's Le Maitre declared that 98% of his country's homes were electrified, that many electric companies were owned partly by private investors and partly by local governments and the question of public ownership did not worry anyone. Viscount Falmouth, nicely neutral on the surface, explained 1 Britain's system of allowing utilities a 7% profit and of requiring five-sixths of all profits over 7% to be used for reducing rates...