Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation as whole; recovery was to arrive on the wings of higher farm buying power. Whatever the validity of this argument, high food costs have consistcutly held down the living standard of our lowest income classes. Surplus distribution through State relief agencies handled negligible quanties of goods from local markets temporarily glutted. The Secretary's scheme will involve nation-wide distribution of farm products ear-marked for poor persons at greatly reduced prices...
...young Congressman Bulkley accused the American Bankers Association of bad temper and loss of dignity and some old bankers called him a radical. But when he was defeated for re-election in 1914, he resumed an orderly Cleveland career, as chairman of the Morris Plan Bank, ardent supporter of local opera, squire of a lakefront estate in Bratenahl, swankest of the city's 41 suburbs. The angel of Ohio's Democracy during the lean '20s, he asserted himself by running for an unexpired Senate term as a Wet in 1930, won by so large a margin that...
During the past three years. Ford Motor Co., although its big River Rouge plant remains unorganized, has not been able to avoid all contact with organized labor. As local unions of the United Automobile Workers of America established contact with Ford management in regional assembly plants, potent Personnel Director Harry H. Bennett announced in Detroit that Ford's basic labor policy had not changed. Last week Mr. Bennett had occasion to say this again...
Sheridan Downey knows all this and since getting nominated has backed away from "Ham & Eggs" as gracefully as possible. The scheme, he says, is a local effort to solve the "senior citizen" problem to which, if he gets to the Senate, he will bend his best talents on a national scale. He will vote for it, he says, "as a Californian," but he has made his peace with Franklin Roosevelt who has condemned "Ham & Eggs" in no uncertain terms...
...Advocate has decided to enter the plebiscite field, it was learned last night, as its officers planned an extensive vote on the "Harvard City" proposal. Meanwhile another local organization, the Harvard branch of the Young Communists, felt that "the misplaced humor of the Harvard Lampoon, by aggravating ill-feelings, only plays into the hands of the Cambridge politicians...