Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...developed personally a practice of getting along and seeing eye to eye on a number of our local problems in Berlin. And so far as I was concerned-and I believe he was honest about it-we were trying to set up a pattern, if we could, in Berlin, in our little local place there, to show that even two nations could get along if they would both recognize the folly of not getting along. Now, what this means today, I don't know. The last time I had a direct letter from him was April 1946, and that...
...Better Day. The merger will take time. A constitution must be written and approved by both A.F.L. and C.I.O. conventions, probably in the fall, and a new name chosen (possibly Congress of American Labor). Over the next few years, A.F.L. and C.I.O. staffs, treasuries, state and local councils will be meshed. The no A.F.L. and 34 C.I.O. unions remain intact, but mergers will be encouraged between competing unions (as in textiles, paper and chemicals). Within the new federation C.I.O. unions will form a department with its own funds and director (perhaps Reuther). But the A.F.L. will supply...
...benefit of judges and lawyers and only incidentally for the benefit of the litigants and the state." Against the members of the bar and the bench who stand in the way of reform, Vanderbilt issues a scathing indictment: "I am convinced that the criminals, the gangsters, the corrupt local officials, the Communistic subversives who would undermine and overthrow our Government with bloodshed and terror such as we have seen abroad . . . are no more dangerous to the country at large than the judges [and lawyers], many of them amiable gentlemen, who oppose either openly or covertly every change in procedural...
...Council of Ministers and the need to have at the post . . . another comrade with greater experience in state work. I clearly see that the carrying out of the complicated and responsible duties of Chairman of the Council of Ministers is being negatively affected by my insufficient experience in local work, and the fact that I did not have occasion, in a ministry or some economic organ, to effect direct guidance of individual branches of the national economy...
...Governor Kubitschek. son of a Polish immigrant, heard somebody say that the 1955 presidential election would be a lottery. Commented Kubitschek: "The governor of Minas Gerais holds a ticket." A year later the left-of-center Partido Social Democratico (P.S.D.) gave Kubitschek the task of touring Brazil and getting local P.S.D. leaders to agree on a 1955 presidential candidate in advance of the party's nominating convention. Kubitschek assiduously set about selling himself. A strong selling point was his record as an industrious builder of roads and hydroelectric plants during his four years as governor of Minas Gerais...