Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic high command of 1936 was doing was to adopt the successful tactics which local Democratic machines in the big cities of the North have independently developed in the last ten years. Before that time any Negro who voted Democratic was threatened with social ostracism if not bodily harm by Republican members of his race. No respectable Negro congregation would dream of allowing a Democratic political meeting to be held in its church. Moreover most Negro politicians were subservient blackamoors who sold their flocks to this or that white Republican faction paying the highest price...
...Bosses Farley and Hamilton as if the Negro were no different from any other racial group in the U. S. electorate. With each of them a vote was a vote and neither was publicly concerned with the volcanoes of prejudice and emotion behind their activities. Both were aware that local machines in the North can give Negroes a semblance of political equality without running into social difficulties. In large cities where the Negro population is packed together in a small area, few whites even have to do business with minor Negro jobholders...
...Every local newshawk who gathered around the GOP manager had silver on the tip of his tongue. John Hamilton, deciding that discretion was the better part of politics, promptly produced for them a compromise interpretation of Governor Landon's gold standard...
...offspring's commercial possibilities, George von Schilling copyrighted the name "Master Stan and His Sousaphone," induced a costume firm, Lilley Ames Co. of Columbus, Ohio, to provide a $100 cream-&-gold uniform for Stanwurt. Father von Schilling got engagements for Stanwurt and himself at Norfolk clubs, at the local Navy Yard Y. M. C. A., and at nearby Virginia Beach. Last week, with Stanwurt 4 years old, George von Schilling announced that his sole job from now on was to be his son's manager. Turning up at a music store in Utica, N. Y., where...
Cotton is a complicated subject on a domestic basis. On a world scale it is staggering. Aside from the difficulties introduced by foreign exchange and local preferences, international cotton merchants have to think, deal, quote in terms of a thousand different kinds of cotton. In the U. S. alone official standards specify 37 different grades on quality, 20 grades on staple length, offering in combinations no less than 740 possibilities. Will Clayton s not only an international cotton merchant but a profound student of economics. When he travels, usually by plane, his brief case is always jammed with earned tracts...