Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concluding his address, Hawley thought there was no pressing need for rebuilding cities or constructing express highways for purely local traffic. "I believe that our streets are capable of handling considerably greater volumes of traffic than they are at present carrying," he said...
...Union, which includes more than 100 Harvard teachers in all and which numbers seven on its executive council, has as its president David W. Prall, associate professor of Philosophy here. Prall succeeded J. Raymond Walsh, former Economics instructor here. The Cambridge Union is a local of the American Federation of Teachers, of which Professor Jerome Davis, formerly of Yale University, is the National President...
...swampy southern coast, to moonshiners in Georgia's remote northern hills, and to thousands of dry and pious Georgia fundamentalists last week came discouraging news from Atlanta. A measure to repeal Georgia's 23-year-old State prohibition law, which has been openly violated in urban localities since Repeal but has stubbornly withstood two referendums initiated by Wets, passed the State Legislature's lower house after a stormy session by 105 votes to 85, squeaked through the Senate 27 votes to 22. Henceforth, Georgia's counties may permit package sales (limited to two quarts...
...them to push on. In Colombia, their boat wrecked, robbed by Indians, they skulked naked along the coast for a week, finally reached a Colombian town, where they were arrested. Belbenoit's comrades were deported. He was allowed to escape after writing a series of articles for the local paper. In five months he reached Panama by paddling stolen canoes (21 in all) along the coast...
...practical politician who set out coldly to destroy Douglas when he saw Douglas as his rival for leadership of the West; a great talker who would start to work but waste his time telling stories and then walk home silently to a scolding wife. But he was also a local politician for whom great things had always been predicted, who was honest, picturesque, wise, extraordinary in his generosity and in his devotion to his tasks. This was the Lincoln Herndon knew, and the man he could not find in any book...