Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegation of local bigwigs, some 6,000 citizens and five women's fife & drum corps were waiting in Buffalo, N. Y.'s railroad station one morning last week when Nominee Alf M. Landon's special train rolled up to the turning point of his Eastern campaign tour. Nominee Landon, rid of his lingering pleurisy, waved his hat, cried "Hello everybody!" and singled out two small boys for special greeting. Stepping out of his way to shake their hands, he asked: "How do you do, little...
While the churches of Barcelona were being pillaged by Reds who dragged out even the mummified corpses of long dead nuns, in Seville the local White commander General Queipo de Llano broadcast this fantastic exhortation...
...supports local Cambridge charities. In the past such organizations as the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, or the Tuberculosis Commission were in the habit of canvassing students for funds. The Council has made an arrangement with such organizations whereby they will not do this canvassing but will be paid by the Student Council in behalf of the student body. This saves the students from the bother of continually being asked for contributions, and further, the Council is in a position to investigate the individual charity before money is given...
This advice came from a large transport plane circling over Cook County. In it, getting a bird's eye view of the area, were a county highway chief and a local judge. When either of them spotted a traffic jam below or detected excessive road friction due to accident or highway construction, he spoke into a short-wave radio transmitter, ordered police-squad automobiles to the spot or offered advice directly to motorists by means of a rebroadcast by Station WBBM...
From a small tug at Pequaming, Mich., stepped vacationing Henry Ford. Straightway he marched to a local dancing school, reeled & minueted with happy moppets for half an hour. For all Pequaming boys & girls he ordered ice cream & cake, chugged off again...