Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national hop, step & jump championship at 22 he was invariably called the "Leaping Parson." From the Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City, where the deacons thought his labor gospel somewhat apocryphal, he leaped to a Chevrolet assembly line, then to leadership of a Kansas City local and finally in one tremendous leap to the front of C.I.O.'s noisiest, most turbulent union. Last week President Martin found himself in a spot from which he could not leap, much as he would have liked to, without immediate risk of mortal injury-Room No. 408 in Detroit...
...snubbed Wyndham Mortimer, veteran first vice president and leader of the opposition, by upping young Richard Frankensteen, hero of the "Battle of the Overpass" at the Ford plait, to a new job as assistant president. He ordered Robert Travis transferred from the powerful Flint (Mich.) local, prepared to split that local's 30,000 members into five groups. He fired Frank Winn, U.A.W.'s able press agent. He fired an organizer who called a strike vote in a General Motors plant. By this time it was apparent that President Martin's long-awaited purge was in full...
...largest States, all except No. 6 (California) are governed by Democrats. Conversely, in the six largest U. S. cities only Chicago has for its Mayor a Democrat. In this independence of the local electorate Republicans glimpse the brightest ray in their infinitely gloomy skies...
...been lecturing throughout the U. S. for eight years. His de Quevedo Guild claims 15,000 members, each of whom Psychologist de Quevedo calls "his intimate friend." Since he began his lecture tours, Dr. de Quevedo has appeared in U. S. cities under the auspices not only of local Guilds but of such approved Catholic organizations as the Knights of Columbus and the Holy Name Society. His Manhattan debut last week was endorsed by Fordham University (Jesuit...
...last week. Dr. Link had found a plant hormone called heteroauxin, previously found elsewhere, in the nodules of red kidney beans. When applied to the bean roots, a paste containing the hormone caused bending, coiling, vertical retardation of root growth, lateral acceleration of root growth, local increase in thickness of the root...