Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...originally refused to release any films to the HLU "after several local theaters had protested." The action had been based on common trade practice which allows an exhibitor to complain if non theatrical 16mm showings compete with a 35mm theater...
...bought a full page in the Paris weekly Star (circ. 1,700) to attack the union leadership as Communist. The League recalled that Kent Rowley, Canadian boss of the United Textile Workers, was interned under the defense-of-Canada regulations in 1940 and released in 1942. Although the Paris local's bylaws called for a two-thirds vote before a strike could be called, Rowley's office had authorized the Paris strike on the slim three-vote majority eked out at the first strike meeting...
...delegation of strikers' wives had visited the cardinal without result, and charges of "Communist domination" and "union busting" had flown back & forth. Then the striking cemetery workers, having cut loose from the Red-edged Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers of America, C.I.O., got a new charter as Local 365 of the Building Service Employees, A.F.L. The day the charter came through, the cardinal sat and talked things over with Vice President David Sullivan of the Building Service international...
...moneymaking Gazette, which once got most of its outside news by printing the letters of traveling readers as "foreign correspondence" now has U.P. and A.P. service and a list of national columnists (Winchell, Bob Hope, E. V. Durling). But it also keeps its smalltown flavor and emphasis on local affairs, and as Alexandria's only daily, mines a profitable lode of local advertising. It makes little attempt to compete with nearby Washington papers...
...spending their summer holiday together again in an old village, full of gardens which ooze sunny peace as a honeycomb oozes honey. Liz's new baby creates all kinds of subtle estrangements, hilarities and tensions. A more serious tension arises when a handsome young stranger arrives at the local inn; though Camilla knows that he is dangerous, she is attracted...