Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of the Treasury, du Pont and du Pont; Attorney General, John W. Davis; Secretary of the Interior, Jim Reed; Postmaster General, John D. M. Hamilton; Secretary of Commerce, Governor E. W. Marland; Ambassador to Bolivia, former Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray; Ambassador to Russia, William Allen White. To various local dignitaries went the posts of Ambassador to the U. S., Ambassador to Ethiopia, Governor General of the Philippines, Minister to Oklahoma, Minister to the Cherokee Nation...
Descended from a family of early Massachusetts settlers, William Austin Burt was a surveyor, mechanic and millwright. He lived on a farm near Detroit when he put together his writing-machine, which he called "The Typographer." Noticing that local magnetism frequently disturbed surveying compasses, he invented a sun-compass, was awarded a medal and $20 in gold by the Franklin Institute. Burt returned from a trip to England in a windjammer to see how well its navigator maintained his course, was thus spurred to invent an equatorial sextant. One of two members of Michigan's early Territorial Legislative Council...
...month apartment in mid-Manhattan, taken to living in their two-room trailer jacked up in a Broadway parking lot for $25 a month. First such case to make news in dense New York City, this was only an inkling of a problem that is vexing local authorities and real-estate owners all over...
...angry owners of nearby real estate brought suit, charging that he was violating a village ordinance by living in a dwelling with less than 400 sq. ft. of floor space. Gumarsol retorted that his trailer was licensed as an automobile accessory. Legally, the case thus hinged on a single local law. But all participants admitted that it pointed up the greater issues of whether trailers should be taxed as personal property or as realty, and whether trailerfolk may continue their present carefree, taxfree, squatter way of life or are to be regulated by a set of brand-new laws...
...liberty for the second week, despite the money-raising efforts of local civic organizations, were 12,000 pupils of the bankrupt public school system of Springfield, Ohio (TIME, Nov. 16). Cincinnati, which had likewise voted down a special school levy, faced the choice of shortening its school year by 49 days or eliminating night schools and kindergartens...