Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Local governments-the cities, the school districts, the counties and the states-should face up to their own responsibilities. I hope I live long enough to see the day when they all find courage and honesty enough to tax their citizens as they should be taxed and then serve them as they should be served. When that happens, the Federal Government will be able to restrict its activities. Washington almost always comes into the picture only after local governments have failed to meet their respor, Abilities...
...legally by the risk of a fine for failure to register, rushed to put their names on the polling lists. In the first four days, 1,200,000 new voters were recorded, and election fever gripped the nation. By week's end, 28 "national" parties and some 700 local "lists" had entered a total of 5,000 candidates for the Assembly's 622 seats...
...Best of the Others." Last week the Socialists met to wrestle with temptation. Candidates threatened with defeat argued vigorously for the Communist alliance. "We can join forces in strictly local arrangements, and if necessary, walk out on them later," they pleaded...
...Lameduck Premier Edgar Faure reminded everyone of a half-forgotten provision in the 1951 electoral laws, banning local alliances which are not approved by a party's national leadership. And the national leadership was firm. Said Socialist Boss Guy Mollet, a mild-mannered but tough-minded ex-professor of English: "One doesn't throw oneself into the arms of those who for years have tried to strangle us and have killed our Socialist brothers in the prisons of enslaved Europe." Leaders of the Socialist unions (Force Ouvriere) backed Mollet: "For us to ally with Communists would deliver...
Many of the sightseers who left the security of British and Portuguese territory to see the show were local Communists or employees of banks and other businesses under Communist control; many were merchants of supposedly neutral persuasion who were perfectly willing to see something good in Communism provided there was money in it. By far the greatest number were ex-Cantonese who seized the chance to see their home and perhaps their relatives once again...