Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Milwaukee went to the polls, turned out its Socialist city attorney and five of its Socialist city councilmen, turned down eight out of twelve other Socialist candidates for the council, defeated Socialist candidates for city treasurer and city controller, rejected a Socialist proposal for municipal ownership of the local electric company. Milwaukee further demonstrated the extent of its current Red scare (TIME, April 6) when it returnedSocialist Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan to City Hall for his seventh term by 111,167 votes to 97,124 for his Non-Partisan opponent, Sheriff Joseph John Shinners-a majority only one-third...
Into Wilkes-Barre, Pa. parcel-post boxes one evening last week were dumped six cigar boxes, neatly wrapped in white paper. Each was labeled "Sample" and addressed to a local citizen...
Third box, addressed to Judge Benjamin R. Jones, was intercepted by postal officials. Former Sheriff Luther Kniffen's box had a defective fuse. Harry Goul-stone, superintendent of a local colliery, doused his in a bucket of water. Sixth, apparently intended for Gorman, onetime umpire of the Anthracite Board of Conciliation, was intercepted at Hazelton before it reached another James Gorman. That evening fire, supposed to have been started by an incendiary bomb, gutted the first floor of St. Mary's Rectory of Wilkes-Barre...
Tall, lanky David Blythe roved from hotel to boarding house, painted local worthies at about $15 or $20 per head. His artistic ability made such a marked impression on one gentleman that, passing Blythe's portrait of an acquaintance staring blankly from a store window, he bowed, doffed his hat, murmured: "Good morning." He made friends and local fame not only by his pictures and convivial eccentricities but by the reams of flowery verse he wrote for local newspapers under the pen name "Boots...
...Coordination" is a word obviously more fitted to catch the eye than the mind, and this is the function assigned the National Committee by the authors of the letter. If a control over the policies of the local chapters is to be rigorously eschewed, coordination will answer such crying needs as setting a common date for peace meetings and demonstrations of other sorts. The annual dues of the chapters will have to be very low indeed if such a service is to have a just price...