Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Water. Making the best use of a limited supply "demands the closest kind of cooperation and partnership" between federal, state and local governments. In dealing with water problems, "each of our great river valleys should be considered as a whole...
...Southern governor. His central theme: great as is the court's power, it cannot "compel social adjustments," which can only emerge from changes in "the hearts and minds of people." The court itself, he declared, acknowledged this fact in its school decision by recognizing "to a degree local conditions and problems" and thus not making integration "compulsory." Thus "segregation in Florida schools . . . can be expected to prevail for the foreseeable future...
...Maier gave occupation authorities more trouble than any other top German official. When the U.S. military governor called him on the carpet for letting off convicted Nazis (he pardoned 2.564 in seven years), he growled that Swabians had been democrats long before Americans, referring to a local magna charta wrung from a Württemberg noble...
...week when Myerberg opened a brand new production of the show in Boston. After Friday's performance he staged a free symposium, which he later said was more successful than any of the New York ones. On the stage were assembled most of the Boston newspaper critics and several local college professors, plus the director, Herbert Berghof, and the members of the cast; and nearly 1500 people filled the house seats...
Honor Among Usurers. In Osaka, Japan, Hockshop Proprietor Hiroshi Ueda, president of the local pawnbrokers' association, was fined 500,000 yen and kicked out of the cartel for charging customers 6% interest a month, a rate out of line with the customary bite...