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Word: localize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said: "I do not favor any general extension of the Federal Government into the operation of business in competition with its citizens. . . . There are local instances where the Government must enter the business field as a by-product of some great major purpose, such as improvement in navigation, flood control, scientific research or national defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: P. 5., P. P. S. | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...local instance" not far from where the Nominee was speaking was the Federal power-and-nitrate project at Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee River. Whether the Government shall sell Muscle Shoals, or lease it to privateers, or keep and operate it itself, has been a hot question in the South for ten years. It is still such a hot question that Editor Edward John Meeman of the Knoxville News-Sentinel thought Nominee Hoover's government-in-business passage did not tell the South enough. He asked the Nominee point-blank what it meant. Then came the first Hoover postscript...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: P. 5., P. P. S. | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

ITALY Progress Oil lamps were replaced by electric, last week, in the rural chateau of His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele at St. Anna Di Valdieri in Northern Italy. Admittedly this belated progress was due to the new local Fascist Mayor, Signer Cavalliero Porta, who caused a hydro-electric power plant to be installed within three months after his inauguration. Last week bulbs glowed in the Royal Chateau for the first time when a gold and ivory button was touched by Their Majesties' eldest spinster daughter, Princess Giovanna Elisabetta Antonia Romana Maria di Savoia, 21, often mentioned as a possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Progress | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...have long been accustomed 'o see our mightiest fall victims to the Jester's darts at times we have even fell them ourselves and it cannot be said to be wholly unpleasant to see the nation's forensic Goliaths suddenly assailed by the local David. Not all of the slings and arrows are impeccably directed, but undeniably certain of them sink into the statistical efficiencies and brown derbies of the present campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ABBOTT FINDS LAMPOON PARODY WELL DIRECTED | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

Aroused by the refusal of the local authorities to issue any definite information in regard to Benjamin Gitlow, Worker's (Communist) Party candidate for vice-president, who has not been heard from for over a week, the officers of the Harvard Thomas-for-President Club last night sent the following telegram...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thomas-For-President Club Telegraphs for Statement From Authorities on Jailing of Gitlow-Foul Play is Suspected | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

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