Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line and run ahead to the point where cheering crowds were waiting. At Detroit also his speaking stand was in centre field from which it took a full second or two for his voice to reach the grandstand, another second or two for applause to come back. Everywhere local politicians were allowed to arrange so many meetings for Alf Landon that he could not possibly attend them all. In Grand Rapids he had to disappoint no less than three such gatherings...
Wondering what the general feeling was about the Democratic procession through the Square on Wednesday, the Inquiring Reporter stopped a well known local character. "Well," said this man, who did not want his name revealed, "I was a little bothered by the hissings and booings. They may have been for Curley, but at any rate it was a poor idea to have the Governor of Massachusetts riding in the same car with the First Executive and his wife...
...present trend towards book stealing continues, the city may be compelled to enforce a statute which would result directly or indirectly in driving second-hand bookstores around the Square out of business and cripple the majority of local bibliography dealers, most of whom sell the used article...
...Lavelle of the New York Archdiocese, whisked uptown to St. Patrick's Cathedral to be greeted by His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, with whom two days later he received that indefatigable cultivator of the great, Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler, then went out to look at local churches. Between these duties at Inisfada, Mrs. Brady's estate, Cardinal Pacelli chatted, supped with his blue-eyed hostess, born Genevieve Garvan, now a papal Duchess and board chairman of the Girl Scouts of America. Also at Inisfada the Cardinal celebrated daily Mass in devout and generous Mrs. Brady...
...arranging these inspirational meetings did not cotton to the Federal Council of Churches' stipulation that at least one Negro be included among the speakers. Neither the protests of Preaching Missionaries nor remonstrance from the city's Negro ministers made any difference. "Wide public controversy," insisted the local committee, must be avoided. So the Preaching Mission followed its schedule, 100% white...