Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to congratulate you on your expose of the Fascist methods used by our present Administration to maintain political power in your article on Emil Hurja [TIME, March 2]. I had a taste of it in our local WPA and resent to the innermost core of my being this threat to personal freedom and self respect. And what could be more brazen than the frank acknowledgment and the making scientific of a spoils system that smells to high heaven. It is high time we wrested the fate of our citizens from the clutches of the politician and entrusted...
...month he had been under the impression that certain buildings being built with WPA funds in four Mississippi towns were going to be used as vocational training schools. Last month he discovered that instead, they were about to be turned over to private manufacturers for use as textile mills. Local newspapers had been publicizing this perversion right along. The supply of funds was promptly stopped, an investigation started; but by that time the factories were 65% to 95% completed. "Wait till I get to the bottom of this," cried Harry Hopkins to newshawks last week. "I'll write your...
...Local elections in 1934 swept Democrats into control of the House, left Republicans with a two-vote margin in the Senate. On New Year's Day 1935 the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Robert Emmett Quinn, took matters in his own hands. As the Senate's presiding officer, he declared the election of two Republicans null & void, installed two Democrats in their places. To form a quorum he had State troopers force three other Republicans to remain in the chamber. Thus equipped with a Democratic majority, in 14½ minutes he whipped through a series of astounding reforms intended...
...Sept. 15 and the Aug. 5 and 7 issues of Labor's Daily Herald. Finally Ratanji went somewhat surgically berserk, butchering and slashing the chunks of flesh that had been wife & nurse and at last contriving to dump the lot into a narrow Scottish ravine appropriately known to local rustics as "The Devil's Beef...
...apart from this I must apologize for the purely local colour which events at Cambridge (ENG.) seem to have borne during the last week, and for the lack of matter in even so short a letter as this. We will both have better luck next week I hope...