Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office of Washington's Secretary of State, filled out her husband's declaration of candidacy, which he signed. Reason: His mother wished him to. He announced he would run not as "a personality" but as a man "who stands for certain principles." Two days later 17 local railway union groups endorsed him on this platform and Representative Zioncheck rousingly declared: "I still feel that even if all those things they say about me are true, I'm the best man they've had in Congress from this State...
Just before quitting his job, Lasser helped organize the Lower West Side Unemployed League in Manhattan, merged it with two other local organizations, managed to keep the leadership. Unofficially backed by the American Federation of Labor, he organized the Eastern Federation of Unemployed in 1934, last year formed his Workers Alliance as a means of consolidating local unemployed groups in a single national movement, focusing public attention on the discontent and despair of doletakers. The amalgamation in Washington last April, he claims, swelled the membership of his organization to 800,000 with chapters or affiliates in 43 states. Monthly dues...
...this Aberhart mummery so vexed the Canadian Manufacturers' Association that its Alberta branch announced that it flatly refused to accept a single prosperity certificate. Local manufacturers, wholesalers and large retailers loudly protested, but issued no such ultimatum. Small shopkeepers, many of them pious adherents of the Premier's Prophetic Bible Institute, declared they were ready to take as many velocity dollars as they could without going insolvent "to give the plan a chance." Premier Aberhart and Cabinet decided to accept part of their salaries in prosperity certificates. First Alberta community approached by the Premier to put his scheme...
...shareholders was slightly soured by Mr. Fuller's calculation that each share of the $7 preferred stock had paid 23% of its earnings in taxes, leaving a dividend of only $4.75 for the investor. Recapitulating, Mr. Fuller also gave it as his gloomy opinion that "Federal, State and local taxes will increase this percentage in the future...
Class I railroads of the U. S. carried 445,995,000 passengers in 1935. Last week, the National Association of Motor Bus Operators announced that non-local bus lines had beaten this mark by carrying 651,999,000 passengers in 1935. An increase of almost 50% over 1934, it was the first time busses had handled more traffic than their biggest rivals. To keep pace with this new business, the largest U. S. bus line, Greyhound Corp., last week whelped the first 25 of a litter of 305 new busses, completely outmoding present standard equipment...