Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...split is minimized by the fact that they do not have a President in the White House. When Republican leaders from eight Midwestern states met in Omaha last week to talk strategy for the 1958 elections, President Eisenhower told them that the party is only as strong as its local leadership. To link that oddly assorted local leadership into national control of Congress in 1958 will be a formidable task...
...second offense, and fingerprinting of arrested bookies. Unfortunately, the opposing minority report by two legislator members of the Commission bodes ill for the passage of these proposals, not to mention the more ambitious suggestions, such as the abolition of all gambling in the state, the integration of local police departments, or making Attorney General an appointive position...
...local football squad will be represented by Jim Joslin at fly-half, Ron Eikenberry on the wing, Jim Damis at fullback, and Charlie Eaton and Stan Merkel (next fall's probable fullback) in the scrum. Joe Conzelman of the '54 squad is playing center...
...scene is laid in Ireland and in old times," and the peasants all around are starving. Two devil-merchants come, offering gold to the poor people for their souls--which seems rather a good idea to most of the peasants, but horrifies the local patron, The Countess Cathleen. She, just returning to her estate after a many year's absence, promptly sends away for grain and cattle for the starving peasants. The devils, who see their lovely valley-full of souls slipping away, steal Cathleen's fortune of gold and tell her that her grain and cattle ships have been...
Shahn emphasized that a distinction must be drawn between the universal value of truth and the local values induced in artists by our particular culture...