Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire slate will be declared elected, and Italy will have a 100% Fascist Chamber. Jokers in the law will almost certainly prevent a 51% vote of "no"; but in that remote contingency new elections would be held, and so ad infinitum until Fascismo triumphs. There are no local constituencies under this mock electoral procedure. In U. S. terms this would mean that the whole nation would vote to elect or reject a Congressional candidate in, for example, Rhode Island or Arkansas. ? See page 329 of The Life of Benito Mussolini by Margherita G. Sarfatti (TIME...
Racketeer. The essential step in the working of an industrial racket is the formation of an association which all the local operators in the industry are invited to join. Thus a dry cleaner might find himself invited to join a local dry cleaning association, paying this association an initiation fee and annual dues. Should he refuse to join, his house might be bombed, his place of business wrecked, his person assaulted, his life taken. Minor forms of pressure would be the hurling of stench bombs, or the introduction of acids or explosives into his cleaning fluids. Should the dry cleaner...
...prizes of $1000 each being presented for the advertisements most effective in the use of text, of pictorial illustration, of display line, and of photography. The third class is for advertising campaigns. There are four prizes of $2000 each given for a national campaign for a specific product, a local campaign for a specific product, for a general or institutional campaign, and for a campaign of industrial products...
...York Daily News and with extended airplane cruises (TIME, Jan. 14). It was recalled, last week, that the maternal grandfather of these men, Joseph Medill. was elected Mayor in 1871, running, after the great fire, on a "Fireproof ticket. Among other possible candidates, Hale Holden, railroader, has more than local interests, and Richard Crane (Crane valves) is only a part-time Chicagoan. A great Chicago enterprise is International Harvester Co.. but its present head, Alexander Legge (TIME, Jan. 14) is too preoccupied with the world's harvests to be concerned with city management...
...Local Reaction. Throughout Jugoslavia chambers of commerce, banks, business houses and petty officeholders wrote and" wired their approval to King Alexander until over 21,000 paeans of loyalty piled up in the white stone palace at Belgrade...