Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stiff session with the Federal money bag, he passed out $322,000,000 worth of local work relief allotments among a crowd of favor-seekers who were frantic lest he depart on his four-week journey without taking care of them...
...broken in 20 places. For that assault police arrested onetime Deputy Prosecuter Peter Anthony Cancilla, whose record includes a conviction for auto theft. Last week Cancilla was convicted of the attack on Newshawk Blish, fined $50 Scripps-Howard executives announced that the Indianapolis Times would pursue its investigation of local corruption further only if "reason for doing so exists." City Editor Harold La Polt, who had actively abetted the Powell crusade was was relegated to the copy desk. Handsome, dramatic-looking ex-editor Powell, who described the exodus as a "collusive divorce with satisfactory alimony," retired to the country, sail...
Most curious thing about the Gannett papers is that they follow no set mold, have no common editorial or typographical formula. Each was a growing concern when Publisher Gannett bought it (average age: 75 years). Each is permitted to continue virtually without interference as an individual newspaper reflecting local conditions and sentiment. Only common denominator of the Gannett papers is that each aims to be as clean, honest and wholesome as its Unitarian publisher...
Real reason for Editor Powell's consignment to the Scripps-Howard doghouse seemed to be that his latest fight, with some local politicians, had become so personal that it canceled his value to his paper. He had lately made some extraordinary allegations of corruption among the Marion County Democracy. Chief target was a criminal court judge named Frank P. Baker, who was once indicted (but never tried) for election fraud...
Judge Baker loudly answered Editor Powell from the bench, accusing him of irregularities in his private life. Further charges of a similar nature began appearing in an anonymous sheetlet called The Dart. When The Dart promised to expose the private life of an important local merchant-one of the largest Times advertisers-Editor Powell's nuisance value to the paper grew by leaps & bounds...