Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, a rival A. F. of L. union had won a local toe hold by signing a contract with a smaller association of warehouse operators. No. 1 provision: no strikes, no lockouts for five years...
...lustiness of the ancient dramatic will have to be toned down in order to harmonize with the more inhibited modern stage, and lest the novel case arise of a play in Greek censored by the local Watch and Ward society. All the obscene paraphernalia will be omitted, but, the officers say, "there will be no departure from strict archaeological exactitude...
...mixed group of over 600 students and politically wise local citizens Mayor Maurice J. Tobin will speak extemporaneously tonight on "Boston City Administration" in the New Lecture Hall...
Just as these embers were beginning to glow less brightly the Harvard attackers found a new brand with which to keep the fire blazing. Plan E, their latest point of offensive, struck essentially at local political rule, and since Harvard men were prominent in its organization, a direct connection with the University was made possible. The political cannon trained their muzzles on Plan E, and finding the range to be the same as that of Harvard, banged away all the more happily in that knowledge. The result has been such a cloud of ill will between Cambridge and Harvard that...
Hooked into a communications circuit to relay their warnings were the lines of 15 local telephone companies (to the vast pride of Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co.'s C.P. ["Old Man Mac"] McClure, retired, who installed the first telephone in the State). Off shore, Coast Guard cutters bore observers. At Craven County was ebullient Tom Haywood, who won brief fame by inventing a rotary kicking machine for citizens who should kick themselves. At New Bern was Cap'n Tom Daniel, 72, who at 52 insisted on fighting in the last war, came home minus...