Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under his old detective agency designation GT-99. The book was a hair-raising success story of how a good machinist broke into the spy business writing daily reports on his fellow workmen, advanced to union-busting, then settled down in a midwest industrial centre to bore into the local labor movement in behalf of the manufacturers. In time he got to be a cynical official of the city's Central Labor Union, an evil power in State A. F. of L. affairs, and served as a delegate to the historic 1935 A. F. of L. convention in Atlantic...
...officialdom needed, the Generalissimo & Mme Chiang had decided, was a big dose of the castor oil of Puritanism. The tablespoon with which they dished this out they called the New Life Movement, and with every ounce of Nanking's authority they dosed all China. Batch after batch of local mayors and magistrates were ordered to Nanking, drilled and exhorted there in the primary decencies-to stop wiping noses on sleeves, to stop taking bribes from litigants. They were warned that he who did not practice the new Puritanism might expect the worst-and this was no empty threat...
...such miscellaneous items of local color, scenic grandeurs, natural wonders and plain facts, the U. S. guides of the Federal Writers' Project are compounded. With 42 big books already published, 20 now on the presses and some 200 more planned or in preparation, the Federal Writers' Project has become in the last few months the biggest literary job ever undertaken...
...books' objective viewpoint as fair enough, only wished more recent history had been included, fewer catalogues of colonial worthies, dutiful essays on wild life. In the attempt to fulfill their triple intention of being readable, authoritative and practical, the guides sometimes fall between two stools, sometimes overelaborate local wonders, sometimes tantalizingly skim the surface of some item of unfamiliar history. From the browsing reader's point of view, boldest and best of the books is the anecdotal Cape Cod Pilot, which includes a vivid account of the sinking of the submarine 8-4 off Provincetown, manages to treat...
...snowless Miami Beach, Fla., Pressagent Steve Hannagan hired a local Santa Claus, sent him to sea on an aquaplane...