Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks after the crime, in Money, the scene of the murder, an already-growing reaction was setting in against outside interference. A good many intelligent people here feel that the NAACP deliberately aggravated the local populace in order to create a propaganda martyr, on the assumption that if the two defendants, Milam and Bryant, were convicted, its crusade would suffer. This indictment may be untrue, but the NAACP could not have gotten better results, even if it had tried. The obvious injustice of its accusations against the state has made residents more convinced than ever that they are right...
City officials and local businessmen hope that the cooperation of the University and M.I.T. will speed up and improve the program which could completely eradicate Cambridge's slums and modernize its antiquated areas. The federal government, which will bear two-thirds of the urban renewal project's costs, approved Cambridge as a renewable area several months...
...newly elected city council is on record as wholeheartedly supporting urban renewal as a means of attracting new businesses to the city and of raising the value of local real estate...
Although hundreds of local residents face increases in their room rents when present rent control laws expire Jan. 1, University students will hardly be affected by the change, a Cambridge city official said yesterday...
Since most local rooms occupied by students have only been rented recently, landlords have always been able to raise rents Duffy said. He did not foresee a sudden increase, therefore, at the beginning of the year. "Yet may get a few crooked landlords," he said, but most are honest...