Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to presiding at the Assembly meetings of the tenth Model League next year, Dean will have the task of preparing the agenda, selecting committee chairmen, and supervising local arrangements...
...county courthouse, which made citizens of nearby Waynesburg, seat of Greene County, want a similar monument to General Greene. When he asked $300 for the job, Waynesburgers hotly replied that they did'"not propose to give him the whole county for his work," hired a local craftsman. Painter Blythe retorted with a long poem in the Uniontown newspaper criticizing Waynesburg's manners, clothes, public houses, beds, women. A Greene County poet replied in angry verse, drawing from Blythe a counter attack in which his adversary was compared to a pumpkin, Greene County to a "sow grown fat with...
Rain fell one day last month in a little Kansas town called Ulysses, in Grant County. A local correspondent for a grain elevator house flashed the word to his Kansas City office. Direct wires carried the news to Chicago and Manhattan, where cables whipped it on to Liverpool and Buenos Aires. It was only a matter of minutes before all the world's wheat speculators knew that at last rain had moistened the dry wheat fields of the U. S. "dust bowl...
...brings a reputation for wit, geniality, and broad interpretation of the law. Now 47, big, baldish, he insists on being called "Pat," has long been a popular toastmaster in his home State. First Federal judge appointed by President Roosevelt, he was strongly supported by both Wisconsin labor organizations and local bar associations...
...Reynolds Specification House" (TIME, Sept. 2). Starting last year Reynolds offered to furnish most of the materials and equipment needed to build a home. Reynolds engineers take the plans of client's architect, draw up specifications for factory-fabricated units, which are sold through local dealers, assembled by local workmen. Reynolds supervises the job, will even arrange for financing...