Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...operation in question was successfully performed by the only American dentist in Yugoslavia, Dr. George E. Reeves of Chicago, who does all the dental work for the American Legation as well as for the members of the local American and British colonies...
...opposed to National Prohibition. ... I think it is a mixing of the National Government in a matter that should be one of local settlement. I think sumptuary laws are matters for parochial adjustment. I think it will vest in the National Government, and those who administer it, so great a power as to be dangerous in political matters...
...would be in favor of State Prohibition if I thought Prohibition prohibited, but I think in the long run except in local communities where the majority of the citizens are in favor of the law, it will be violated...
...reaching out of the great central power to brush the doorsteps of local communities, far removed geographically and politically from Washington, will be irritating in such States and communities, and will be a strain upon the bond of the National Union. It will produce variation in the enforcement of the law. There will be loose administration in spots all over the United States and a politically inclined National Administration will be strongly tempted to acquiesce in such a condition. Elections will continuously turn on the rigid or languid execution of the Liquor Law, as they do now in Prohibition States...
Should Nominee Smith fail to carry his own state he would not only stand no chance of election this year, but he would probably be politically dead, especially to himself. What the Roosevelt nomination meant, to the Brown Derby, how the local "situation" stood, was bound to become as familiar to the national electorate as many a broader phase of the national campaign. It was this...