Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaperman from Denver was being interviewed here in connection with his recent visit to "locate" the birthplace etc. of Bridey. He had visited Cork and Belfast and appreciated the tremendous help given him by the local people throughout, though he said they were "laughing up their sleeves" at his research...
...Eureka (Ill.) College, founded in 1855 by the elders of the local Disciples of Christ, was the victim of the Depression. In spite of every economy, it could not afford to keep up its library or replace its retiring professors. It even had to pay part of its faculty in scrip. In 1936 the North Central Association finally withdrew its accreditation. Today, reports President Ira W. Langston, the yearly deficit is still $20,000, and though the library is climbing up to par and the college has about the proper proportion of Ph.D.'s on its faculty, it cannot...
...highest average wage of $2.23 an hour, plus another 69? an hour in fringe benefits. Relations between Republic and the I.A.M. have been poor ever since the union organized the plant in 1950. The union now has 12,000 members, leaving another 7,000 workers nonunion. The local is faction-ridden, has twice pulled wildcat walkouts. After a 1952 "sick" strike, the irritated international censured the local leaders...
...payments to the prorater found that the agency had changed hats. It began working as a collection agency for his creditors, and garnisheed his wages. Clients who wake up, discover that they've signed a skillfully-drawn, loophole-tight contract. One Philadelphian taken for $500 appealed to the local Legal Aid Society only to find 70 complainants before him. Nothing could be done. Said he: "It cost me $500 to find out I could handle my debts better than the debt lumpers could...
...incidents-some mildly irreverent (as when Fernandel steals a favorite crucifix from his old church), some funny, some dull. As usual, the priest is better at pugilism than piety: he knocks out a professional boxer to uphold the honor of his town, and when the mayor and a local capitalist are at each other's throats, he quiets them with a bludgeon. Balanced with these feats of muscular Christianity are a pastoral interlude where Fernandel softens the mayor's stubborn son in a sequence that touches the strings of love and charity, and a less happy episode that...