Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the gloom, but most of the Second City's outlying streets were doused in country darkness. "It's the city's funeral, not ours," said Michael J. ("Umbrella Mike") Boyle, the bold boss who had called the strike. Long-time business agent for a Chicago local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, "Umbrella Mike" Boyle is said to have earned his nickname by his method of collecting donations from electrical contractors and other citizens who sought his favors. Boss Boyle would hang his umbrella on the bar of Johnson's saloon, absent himself while...
Establishing a precedent in University development, the new Littauer School of Public Administration will open on March 1, for a three month session without students during which the faculty will hold sessions with fifty prominent officials drawn from federal, state and local government, President Conant announced last night...
...many courses already given at Harvard in public finance, accounting, state and local government, economic theory, political theory, political parties, labor problems, law, business administration, state government and municipal government will be used by the school whenever desirable, but the school will operate as an individual unit with its own separate faculty, dean, budget, and equipment...
...local chapter of the Red Cross received a telegram last Saturday assigning a quota of $4000 to this community; and on Monday, as it appeared that the flood would be the most disastrous in all our history, it has been asked that the fund quota be doubled--and to go as far beyond that as possible. In order to be able to secure this large sum, the cooperation of the members of the University is necessary...
With bona-fide critics hailing Laughton's "Rembrandt" as a satisfying sequal to his jobs with the notorious Tudor monarch and the "Mutiny on the Bounty", and with the local half-shell philosopher disagreeing with editorial policy, as is his prerogative, and damning it as a fraud and a delusion, the spectator has no where to turn. For certainly "Rembrandt" is not a great picture. Laughton, overimpressed with his own impressiveness, talks in a whisper that makes flesh creep, while the whole theme of the artist's life seems too simple for him and yet too deep, and it evades...