Word: localize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might avoid paying in their equalization fees by getting some local philanthropist to set up a marketing fund for them. Then, in years when the ten pig men raised more pigs than could be sold profitably in their home village, those who had surplus pigs could borrow from the fund to pay for transporting their pigs to distant markets, or to buy feed for pigs kept penned until the home village was ready to buy more pigs. In case the pig surplus was so great that the pig men's borrowings exhausted the loan fund, the pig men could...
...blacklist" protested by Mrs. Bailie and upheld by the Daughters' congress, had included a lengthy assortment of persons and organizations bracketed as socialists, pacifists, "radicals," enemies of national defense. The list was for the "guidance" of local D. A. R. chapters in Massachusetts, to know who could safely be invited to make speeches. The persons proscribed ranged from Ben Gitlow, communist, to that eminent, peace-loving scientist, President-emeritus David Starr Jordan of Stanford University.* The organizations included even such innocuities...
...costs $250 to produce an acre of tomatoes in Florida. Under cheap labor in Mexico it costs $90 to produce a similar acre." Therefore, the Florida Chamber of Commerce asked local candidates for Congress to sign a pledge to work for U. S. tariffs on tomatoes and such like. "The principle of protective tariff has been established through the years as a national policy," said the Florida Chamber of Commerce. Many a similar symptom has been observed lately, pointing toward the Republicanization of historically Democratic Florida...
...General is crying," whispered sturdy citizens of Cobourg, Ontario, last week, as they stood in a packed throng at the local Court of Assizes. Within was General Sir Arthur William Currie, 52, once the peppery Commander-in-Chief of Canada's expeditionary force in France (1917-19), now the august Principal of famed McGill University, Montreal. Sir Arthur's eyes brimmed with tears of relief and triumph because he had just wiped a nasty smudge from his honor by winning a libel suit which has been reported in Canadian papers at Peaches-Browningesque length for many a week...
...metropolis is the president of a university as important a local figure as the president of the University of Chicago. His name is put on reception committees, figures in civic drives. He is a bigger frog in Chicago than Nicholas Murray Butler is in Manhattan. So it was indeed news last Sunday when Max Mason, 50, resigned as president of the University of Chicago, to become director of the newly-created Division of Natural Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation of Manhattan. Chicago regretted his resignation, for his three-year administration on the Midway had been energetic, progressive...