Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night sessions in which Nixon and his staff review the previous day's activities and plan for tomorrow. She says little, but what she does say is sound; e.g., she insisted that Nixon's advance men say nothing about the unscheduled handshaking stops for fear the local arrangers might try to set something up that would spoil the spontaneity...
...Republican ticket is endangered by farm unrest; in Washington and Oregon he has given Arthur Langlie and Douglas McKay his backing for the Senate, and he feels honor bound to support them in their uphill races. But the President has shown little concern for candidates in trouble because of local party apathy or faulty leadership. Told of two such spots in Ohio last week, he answered: "Well, why don't they do something about it instead of calling...
Last week in a public meeting, the three county commissions heeded a growing public uproar, in effect kicked Dr. Coggins out of her job. She had had no hearing; the protests of state officials and a couple of local residents that her "indiscretion" be "forgiven" were overruled. "Fire her! Fire her!" cried Jesse Lott of Monticello from the audience. "When we give one inch, we are going to give the whole thing. It is time to stand up and be white men, not jellybacks." When one of Dr. Coggins' friends asked a county commissioner if he had not eaten...
...prove his point, Bender was on the road last week as he had been for months before. One day started at 8:30 a.m., took Bender through seven counties, meeting with local Republican leaders, answering questions at high-school assemblies, bouncing into stores, banks, barbershops and courthouses to invite the occupants out to hear him speak on street corners. At every country store with a few cars parked outside, he stopped, entered, shook hands all around, and said: "I'm U.S. Senator Bender. I happen to be touring in your neighborhood and stopped by to say hello...
...election. Not that this talk has been without its uses. The White House Conference on Education did serve to stir the interest of either apathetie or conservative segments of the populace. Certain previously reactionary groups as a result of the conference have suddenly taken an interest in organizing local action to alleviate the critical overcrowding of their schools...