Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interference. In Long Beach, Calif., the Rev. Ralph M. Grove called in engineers to help his hard-of-hearing parishioners : the church's newly installed earphones were picking up nothing but local police calls...
...affected workers "necessary" to production of goods in interstate commerce; the new one applies to the approximate onethird of the U.S. working force which is "directly essential" to production in interstate commerce. Specifically excluded are farm laborers, newspaper carriers, small telephone, telegraph, newspaper and logging operations; employees of most local stores and laundries...
First he took on Czechoslovakia for charging three U.S. embassy staff members with espionage, and jailing one of them. These incidents and charges, said Acheson sternly, were "obviously trumped up in order to intimidate further the local population . . . This government has sufficient knowledge of the police methods and practices employed by the present regime in Czechoslovakia to know how much credence should be placed in 'confessions' and 'irrefutable proof produced in cases of this kind...
...Local authorities apparently feel that Princeton weekends are proper times for rioting--for they let 15 of the 16 students arrested last night go with a pleas of nolo contender and payment of costs...
...Local womanhood now consists of very rich girls and very poor girls. Intermediate social levels occasionally appear on the Princeton campus, causing students to complain, "I can see they're there, but damned if I know where they come from...