Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rochester Reliefer is Miss Mabel McFiggins. "I used to work in a button factory," said middle-aged Miss McFiggins, "but that was a long time ago. My arthritis, y'know." Along with others on local relief in Rochester, Miss McFiggins last week received her semimonthly check from the city welfare department. She then did something that Reliefers had never done before. She bought a booklet of orange and blue stamps issued by the U. S. Government, thus became the first feminine guinea pig in an experiment designed by the Department of Agriculture to relieve the glut of surplus farm...
...Federal Surplus Commodities Corp., which is running the Rochester experiment, normally buys food direct from farmers, cooperatives, etc., and distributes it to the needy through 22,647 outlets in charge of local and State relief agencies. Many are inefficient, careless, hard to deal with, and FSCC is far from satisfied with its own system. So are retailers, who complain that the farm-to-stomach route cuts them out of much business...
...optimists from the start, Milo Perkins & colleagues were moderately pleased by the early showing in Rochester. Of the 8,600 local Reliefers who received their checks, 3,900 had purchased stamps during the first three days. Total cost to them (for orange stamps): $29,026 to which the U. S. added $14,513 for blue stamps. After the first rush, stamp sales noticeably slackened, and Relief officials concluded that many of their clients would require much "education" before they would give up regular money for pretty pieces of paper. One in four of Rochester's WPAsters volunteered to accept...
...Irate ever since disclosures of an alleged Nazi plot to annex arid, sheep-raising Patagonia, Argentine President Dr. Roberto Ortiz decreed the dissolution of the local Nazi Party, gave Italian Fascists, Spanish Falangists, all other foreign-directed political groups 90 days to subscribe to "democratic principles...
...Originally committees formed in factories and towns when the Tsar's authority broke down, there are now 70,000 of them to whom delegates, not always Communist Party members, are elected by secret ballot in direct elections, but from candidates selected by the Communist Party. Over local Soviets are Soviets of townships, over them Soviets of regions, over them Soviets of the twelve national districts, nine "autonomous regions," 22 "autonomous republics" and eleven "constituent republics" into which the country is divided, all nominated and elected in the same way. On top of the whole heap is the Supreme Council...