Word: localize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor. Accordingly, the Alliance has to play a canny game of Truth & Consequences with hostile investigators like Congressman Martin Dies. Fact is that the relatively small Communist fraction in Alliance ranks is larger than in most trades unions. Last week in Cleveland many of the delegates lodged with local Communists. The convention barred two New Yorkers who complained that, just as the Communists have tempered their revolutionary doctrines (TIME, May 30), so has the Alliance gone milk-&-watery in its dealings with...
...Federal relief funds to care for the present peak of 3,102,000 WPAsters (see col. 1); a growing respect for the Alliance in Congress. David Lasser's next demands on Harry Hopkins and Congress will be a 20% increase in WPA wages, to bring them up to local union standards, and a $6,600,000,000 work relief outlay to make jobs for 4,000,000 over the next six years. Lasser & Friends look on Harry Hopkins not as a golden goose but as a well-meaning, progressive employer who must be prodded...
...return for running their government, supporting their welfare center, fulfilling all their obligations to local charities, providing over forty deserving students with scholarships, and defraying all expenses incurred in the interests of the student body as a whole, undergraduates last year contributed only slightly more than one dollar per capita to the Student Council...
...have heard, there recently has been published in Cambridge a "University Blue Book" which supposedly lists the social cream at the "Big Three", Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Out of its three hundred odd names, only 40 or so local boys are included, and many of these are not from our best known families. While such details as prep schools and clubs are included, most of the boys' claim to fame seems to be that they are 10th generation American. One man says he belongs to the 14th generation American, which is certainly tracing it back . . . and back . . . and back...
...modern sense of community functions on a larger scale and demands larger areas of local administration well suited to the character of the modern urban community. Moreover, we must look forward to the extension of the essential principles of the city manager plan to approved areas of regional administration. Despite the apprehension in some quarters lost our people find themselves confronted with a group of TVA's threatening to get out of hand, the void in our present system of public administration must be filled by the development of regional administrative mechanisms...