Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definite organization has yet been formed at Harvard, but it is understood that many students have written to Washington suggesting the setting up of a local body here with regular officers...
Also bowled over in quick succession were Republican amendments to: 1) substitute the dole for work relief; 2) set up non-partisan local boards to administer relief; 3) fine and imprison any WPA official attempting to influence votes in a national election. As swiftly approved were Democratic amendments to: 1) bar aliens illegally resident in the U. S. from relief; 2) end the rule that WPA jobs may be had only by those on relief rolls since last November...
...care what he bought so long as Calvin Coolidge once owned it. Best price of the day was $96 for a mahogany dining room set. Most satisfied buyer was a hotel man who purchased enough for a complete "Coolidge Room." As the five-hour proceedings dragged on, various local Coolidge friends stood about scowling blackly. Snorted Judge Henry P. Field, in whose office Calvin Coolidge got his first job: "It's a disgrace to Northampton!" Equally uncomfortable as the parade of shabby possessions trickled past, Lawyer Ralph W. Hemenway, Calvin Coolidge's onetime partner, explained they were "just...
...singers' faces. When the performance was about to begin a wind squall broke, blew down the Egyptian temple which was supposed to serve as the first-act scenery. Faithful to the stage directions, Wronski had wanted horses for the second act, engaged them with their drivers from a local coal company called Pittman & Dean. The horses were reasonably patient, but the drivers took too much to drink during the constant delays. Finally they emerged on stage slapping the animals' rumps, shouting boisterously: "Yea, Pittman & Dean! Yea, Pittman & Dean...
...right on their side if they called the title a misnomer. Not primarily a collection of famed or fameworthy anecdotes but a regional anthology. Compiler Hudson's book is an academic barn-full of curious gleanings picked up from old Southern almanacs, church histories, colonial archives. State records, local newspapers, magazines. Professor Hudson's cross-section of the pre-Civil War Deep South, which he calls Misslouala (Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama) gives a kaleidoscopic picture that is interesting but rarely funny...