Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort of official blessing on the grim efforts of small bands of crusaders all over the nation to persuade Americans "that world peace can be created and maintained only under a world federal government," to quote to a recent United World Federalist manifesto. In the Harvard community, the local World Federalist membership is stumping from House to House, passing out literature, biscuits, and coffee--and patiently answering both candid questions and polite sneers that the Federalists are "naive...
Until such a time, the Federalists are trying earnestly to keep up overseas contacts, buttonhole Congressmen, put their platform before the public, and increase their membership. The local chapter has around 90 men and the total U.S. enrollment is roughly 40,000. The British Unionists have a good deal more, as do the groups in France and Italy--but there is no evidence, the U.W.F. sadly admits, that there are any Federalists operating in the Soviet Union...
...presiding officers of the conference. These schools have also been deliberately vague about the functions of the conference, changing it from a discussion group to a problem-solving body. They have been helped in this last maneuver because NSA is not nearly so well organized on the local level as it is on the regional and national levels. But it would be absurd for NSA schools like Harvard to pay dues to a local organization that is not only unintegrated into the NSA on the larger levels, but might actually be in conflict with it. If the Greater Boston conference...
...will concentrate on the art, architecture and culture of the country and will visit museums and other cultural centers. The second group will concern itself more with study of the social, political, and economic life of the country, and will visit factories, newspapers and universities and attend sessions of local and national legislatures...
Purchase cards will go on sale this noon in all Houses, Chairman Donald L. Bornstein '50 of the National Student Association project announced last night. The cards cost $1 and entitle students to price reductions ranging from 10 to 25 percent at a group of over 20 local stores...