Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think it is a disgraceful misinterpretation and neglect of duty for him to concern himself with local politics and relegate matters of national import to secondary consideration...
...LEADERSHIP IN PHILADELPHIA HAVE BEEN HOPING THAT TIME WOULD DISCOVER AND TELL THE WORLD THE NEW "PHILADELPHIA STORY." WE HAVE BEEN HOPING THAT THE CLEAR, CLARION VOICE OF TIME WOULD RISE ABOVE THE DIN OF THE CHATTER AND "LET-THE-MUD-FLY" CONCEPTION OF PUBLIC SERVICE HELD BY OUR LOCAL ADMIXTURE OF RIGHT-WING, LEFT-WING . . . THANK YOU FOR YOUR OBJECTIVE APPRAISAL OF THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES IN THE 1949 CAMPAIGN AS MEN OF ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE POLITICAL PURITY...
...Corps.'s 3,000 workers were still holding out for a 15?-an-hour wage hike, $100-a-month noncontributory pensions and other benefits which the company estimated at an overall 62½?-an-hour increase. Trying out a new tactic, striking members of the United Auto Workers Local 501 observed Ladies' Day on the picket lines. Helmeted, club-swinging strikers' wives attacked three Bell engineers who tried to pass through. Deputy sheriffs, clubs at the ready, promptly arrested a handful of the women, then found themselves engaged in a pitched battle with the husbands. The melee...
Forming behind a depleted band and a group of local citizens at 7:15 p.m. a clock-long line of march snaked around the usual rally route and up to the Indoor Athletic Building to hear speeches by Coach Art Valpey and Captain Howie Houston and watch traditional routines performed by the Band and Cheerleaders...
...picked to be the University's first observatory. A skeptical classics professor reported to a friend that "there is a caboose set upon the roof with a telescope that commands an unobstructed view of all the chambers in the neighborhood." Not all the views were unobstructed, however. A local farmer moved a barn onto his place just south of Massachusetts Avenue, neatly eclipsing the top of Blue Hill, which the observatory was using for a transit sight. The University finally had to buy a right of way in the roof and chop a hole through it to maintain the sight...