Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cortes' 473 members. As usual, the election aftermath was turbulent. A "state of alarm" was declared when elated Leftists rioted in principal cities, stormed jails in attempts to release 30,000 of their comrades jailed in 1934. Exuberantly in Alicante they turned loose the inmates of the local leprosarium...
Next day Footballer Golemgeske's story broke in the local dailies, strongly pro-Spears, because, Meanwell protagonists claim, Spears had previously promised their two sport columnists university employment if he obtained the 1934 appointment as athletic director. By this time Golemgeske had changed sides, charged that Director Meanwell had offered him a job and two major letters if he would circulate a petition for Spears' dismissal, also accused him of giving him a swig of whiskey after a 1935 game. Waukesha alumni, fearing that their native son was the football of opposing groups, engaged a lawyer, sent...
...would be fired. After the season, 220-lb. Captain-elect John Golemgeske of Waukesha cornered Director Meanwell, said he represented 18 squad members who desired Spears' dismissal. The "Little Doctor" told him to present it in writing. Soon afterward, the football squad celebrated its poor season at a local roadhouse. Golemgeske dragged his supporters into the men's room, put the question to them. Seen there by an assistant coach, he was taken before Spears who plied him with drinks and questions...
...jubilation was almost personal, for the Item-Tribune pridefull) credited a major share of the victory to the patience and acumen of its own lawyer, 38-year-old Eberhard P. Deutsch. Seldom is a newspaper's lawyer a hero in its editorial rooms. Even more seldom does a local barrister achieve note among the platoon of silk-hatted, wing-collared striped-trousered counsel which is attracted to an important constitutional case. Lawyer Deutsch, son of a Cincinnati pedagog, got a job in the circulation department of the Item-Tribune, went to Tulane University's law school at night...
...obtained Mr. Insulls acquittal on fraud charges in connection with the fall of Middle West Utilities, explained that his client was only a "hired president." "He will act also as general manager," said Lawyer Thompson. "He is at work now completing the organization, gathering assistants together." Some 15 local radio stations in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin have already been signed up. Mainspring of the Insull chain is Ota Gygi, one-time court violinist to Spain's Alfonso XIII and promoter of Ed Wynn's defunct Amalgamated Broadcasting Co. According to Lawyer Thompson, President Insull "hasn...