Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story was ignored, even by the local weekly for which I work, and which is distinctly "folksy...
...people who live in the District of Columbia have a local government which costs 48-odd million dollars a year. Because its large realty holdings are taxexempt, the Federal Government last year contributed a flat $5,000,000 to help run the District. For the privilege of doing business in Washington, some 45,000 businessmen paid in licenses and business-privilege taxes another two million into the District's till. The additional 41 millions or so were paid by D. C. citizens who always grouse about taxation without representation, because Congress makes their laws but they cannot vote...
Election of a new Republican National Committeeman in Illinois last fortnight revealed nothing about Republican sentiment in that key State except that the local gentlemen do not want National Chairman John Hamilton's finger poking into their local affairs. Over Charles B. Goodspeed, the G. O. P.'s national treasurer and John Hamilton's good friend, they elected Hill Blackett, 47, advertising tycoon (Blackett-Sample-Hummert Inc.), who handled radio time for the Landon campaign. Announced Committeeman Blackett last week: "Any man has an equal chance as far as I'm concerned...
...sacred Emperor alone. This time there was every indication that the Tientsin military, although not acting with the foreknowledge of the Government, had its backing. The Domei News Agency said the Cabinet fully approved the action at Tientsin. The Foreign Office at Tokyo considered the incident a local one-i.e., one to be handled by the military...
...Paris, the French Government, although anxious to treat the matter as purely a local incident, was willing to go along with the British on whatever measures were agreed upon. But at week's end the British, involved up to their necks in building up a "Peace Front" to resist Adolf Hitler's aggressions in Europe, took no measures at all. The British felt that they could not fight the Japanese economically without U. S. aid, and last week the U. S. State Department kept noticeably quiet...