Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge Ritter. his arms folded, his face pale and expressionless. At his right sat his broad-beamed Chief Counsel, Frank P. Walsh, to hire whom, according to Florida newshawks in the press gallery, Judge Ritter was obliged to mortgage his Florida home. The third chair was occupied by his local counsel from Miami. Up rose the Secretary of the Senate to read the first article of the impeachment. It charged Judge Ritter with allowing a $75,000 fee to his onetime law partner in a bankruptcy case, getting a $4,500 kickback for himself...
...near the University of Chicago. Today the Capitol of the U. S. is still in Washington, D. C., but so far as the states individually have any point of contact, it is Mr. Toll's office building in Chicago. There now are the headquarters of 17 organizations serving local governments (e. g., Civil Service Assembly, Public Administration Clearing House, U. S. Conference of Mayors, National Association of Tax Assessing Officers). Presently Rockefeller money is to erect a $500,000 building on Chicago's Midway to house these secretariats, a sort of League of Nations Palace for the local...
Borden was boycotted by the League's 2,000 members last month because it refused to renew its agreement with Local No. 584 of the Milk Wagon Drivers' Union. The League investigated, found in its opinion that the company had spent money to break up the union, had formed a company union without determining fairly what its employes wanted. Last week members of the League who were also Borden stockholders or who could get Borden proxies went to Jersey City to identify their protest with the interests of Borden owners...
...bill puts the question of their future squarely up to the local politicians. If their bravado proves to be nothing more than that, then the wiser leaders will regain control, provided with an effective radical-silencer. But if these Porto Rican lago's persuade the populace to vote "yes" on the independence referendum, they will have only themselves to blame for the disastrous results that are bound to follow. Porto Rico now enjoys the best possible trade relations with America: in four years, when complete independence would be obtained, she would be allowed no more privileges than any other country...
...Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, the folks take real interest in the Tercentenary. Even Frank W. Meyer, the proprietor of the local meat market, realizes its power, as the following ad, greatly reduced in size, will testify. It appeared in the daily "Sleepy Eye Progressive" last fall, and was uncovered in the "Crime" yesterday...