Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Local winter sports conditions have suffered during the past week, but a forecast from Old Man Winter of the Boston Transcript, for Vermont and New Hampshire, of colder weather, possibly with snow today, means that conditions up North will be fair...
...Columbia Broadcasting System announced that it will give the Communist Party free time on the air. It is evident that the radio has assumed a place of political importance at least equal to that of the daily newspaper, and an impartiality whose scope and influence far exceed the best local press organs. At the bottom of this policy of non-partisanship lies the Federal Communications Commission, a body, which, if its present principles are maintained permanently, will do more for the success of democratic government than any possible mechanical reform...
...orchestra is sponsored by the W.P.A. Richard Burgin is conducting this week at the Boston Symphony concerts, and the program contains Roy Harris's Second Symphony, the suite of dances from "The Basque Venus" by Wetzler, and Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto no. 5 in E flat with Leonard Shure, local artist, at the piano. This is Mr. Shure's debut with the orchestra...
...this paper," said the vitriolic mayor, changing the subject and pointing at the headlines of the local evening paper, "I've cut every city employee's pay 25 per cent. They can't expect to get as much when we've got the highest tax rate since Newburyport was incorporated. It can't be helped with this Roosevelt as President," Gillis said, as he lapped into an unprintable tribute to the first executive...
...funds of $20,000 or less selfsupporting. New York banks try to keep their minimum trust funds closer to $50,000. But they cannot get too haughty about taking little accounts because their advertisements solicit a general trust business. Trustee fees vary according to the State, the Courts, the local customs. In New York, banks get from 1 ½% to 3% of both principal and income, the percentage depending on the size of each.† Sometimes big estates pay less than standard rates, but this practice is frowned upon. The late Elbert Gary (U. S. Steel Corp.) willed the trusteeship...