Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home owners: '. . . We have no further concern with how you keep your home. . . '? Shall we say to the several millions of unemployed: '. . . We will turn you back to the charity of your communities. . . '? Shall we say to the needy: 'Your problem is a local one. . . '? Shall we say to the children who have worked all day: 'Child labor is a local issue. . . '? Shall we say to the laborer: '. . . If your employer will not even meet with you to discuss your problems and his, that is none of our affair'? "Members...
...most dailies outside Chicago and New York, the lot of the financial editor is unenviable. He has to take much of his material secondhand, may have to compete with syndicated columnists on his own page, usually sees his big local business stories played on the front page. Only a few financial editors have built up a personal following. Best-established in San Francisco is John Stackhouse Piper of the Scripps-Howard News. Born in Caribou Me. 39 years ago, he crusaded last year against the realty reorganization racket, oil royalties, "boiler rooms," bucket shops...
...defiance and more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger which made front pages throughout Christendom. It was sheer genius for Haile Selassie to deny that Italians used dumdum bullets instead of charging them with that military offense. It was again genius for him to cable out that in Ethiopia the local press had been ordered by the Emperor never to apply discourteous epithets to Benito Mussolini. Finally only genius could enable the Emperor to put himself-a frail, exquisite Semite who speaks French-on terms of friendly respect with robust Anglo-Saxon correspondents when they arrived in Addis Ababa and promptly...
...process of formation in Chicago was a new local radio chain called the Affiliated Broadcasting Co., headed by Samuel Insull...
...Lindberghs' move, Reporter Lyman reviewed the tide of threatening letters from cranks and crooks which had begun in 1927, ebbed & flowed as the Lindberghs were more or less prominent on the nation's front pages. Since the kidnapping of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., Federal, State and local police had guarded the Lindberghs unremittingly, traced some of the threats, made a few arrests. Still the famed family lived in fear. Gratified were they when threats died down as excitement over Bruno Richard Hauptmann's arrest and conviction diminished. Then came two deciding events. Last month New Jersey...