Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scholarship Committee also announced a grant of $50 to the Cambridge Boy Scouts as part of its regular contributions to local charities...
...baby. Medical groups from the American Medical Association down endorsed the film, and its serious purpose: the reduction of sickness and death among mothers and offspring. Last week The Birth of a Baby was drawing crowds in Minnesota, but the problem of getting the picture past squeamish local censors had delayed its showing in many States, notably New York. At the suggestion of the film's producers, LIFE reproduced 35 pictures from the cinema. The magazine notified its 650,000 subscribers in advance, so that they could decide whether or not to let their children see them, printed...
...Mississippi which banned LIFE, used an 1884 statute to pull the magazines off the newsstands. In Tucson, only far-Western city to object, the publisher of the Arizona Star sold 25 copies of LIFE over his own counter in defiance of the police. The Memphis Press-Scimitar contrasted the local ban on LIFE with open sale at the same time of Sex Guide, The Nudist and Tattle Tales. Though William Jay Schieffelin, vice president of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, thought "LIFE rendered a public service by picturing in a decent way the facts about...
...Inter-House debates will be presented before local civic or religious groups and schools in order to give the experience of speaking to stimulating audiences. Decisions on the merits of the proposals and the debating skill will be voted by the audiences...
Hicks has been branded a "Communist" and his appointment violently opposed by patriotic organizations and local political officials. The difference between the two cases lies in the fact that the Laski controversy was started by an issue of the Lampoon devoted to an attack on him, while no student group has come out against the Hicks appointment...