Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anti-subversive statutes. State laws are "in no sense uniform," and their enforcement could present "serious danger of conflict" with federal antisubversion operations. In the strongest dissent that Earl Warren has ever faced, Justices Stanley Reed, Sherman Minton and Harold Burton argued that "in the responsibility of national and local governments to protect themselves against sedition, there is no 'dominant interest' . . . Congress has not, in any of its statutes relating to sedition, specifically barred the exercise of state power to punish the same acts under state...
Pravda attacked a number of local party officials and Scientists Avalov, Orlov, Nesterov and Shchedrin for "slanderous statements directed against the party's policy and its Leninist foundations." Singled out for his "provocative, antiparty" attitude was Economist L. D. Yaroshenko, whom Stalin himself denounced for "Bukharinism...
Ignored at the Local Level. The top levels of all the Protestant denominations have declared themselves in support of the Supreme Court's desegregation rulings, but their pronouncements are often blandly ignored or actively disregarded at the local level. The Roman Catholic Church, taking the unequivocal position that segregation is a continuing offense against Christian morality, has been the only church in the South to take open steps to enforce its position. But many Catholic priests, like Protestant ministers, prefer to move slowly, and Southern Catholics are not all taking kindly to their church's position...
Only two hours before he was attacked last week, Riesel gave an example of his blunt, sometimes overdramatic technique on a broadcast over radio station WMCA. He attacked William De Koning Jr., head of the Operating Engineers' Local 138 on Long Island, and De Koning's father, an ex-convict labor boss. Also on the program was Emanuel Muravchik, field director of the Jewish Labor Committee, who talked of discrimination against Negro labor in the South...
...small businessman's growing prosperity, SBA took a modest share of the credit. To boost its own loan program, it teamed up with local banks to finance capital improvement loans for such small companies as neighborhood stores; in 1955's last half SBA approved $30,332,390 in loans, an increase of 20% over the previous six months. But SBA's proudest accomplishment is channeling a bigger share of Government contracts to small business. This year, said SBA, the Government will boost to $158 million its contracts with small businessmen, a gain of more than 100% over...