Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more local churches would form a "presbytery;" three or more presbyteries would make a "conference," headed by a Bishop. A supreme body, the "General Conference," consisting of about 1,000 ministerial and lay delegates, would meet biennially...
...Bryant Bowles, head of the Negro-baiting National Association for the Advancement of White People, announced that he would settle down at the scene of his greatest triumph: Milford, Del. Thereupon, he 1) was accepted as a member in the local P.T.A., 2) rented the Milford American Legion hall for a public meeting, 3) launched a fund-raising drive for the N.A.A.W.P., and 4) began collecting signatures for a petition to oust three officials who have not been displaying the proper N.A.A.W.P. attitude: State Superintendent of Public Instruction George R. Miller Jr., Milford Superintendent Ramon C. Cobbs...
...reinstatement at Bryn Mawr Hospital. The directors turned him down just before Christmas. Then the storm broke. Expressing their "shock and displeasure," 27 of Bryn Mawr's medical staff urged the directors to back down; a majority of the hospital's other staff members joined in protest. Local organizations passed pro-Hodge resolutions. Seven local Protestant churchmen sent the directors an open letter: "[Hodge] has been judged, punished and returned to us . . . Shall we deny him any occasion to employ his special talent for constructive enterprise...
TRUCK WAR between Ohio and 19 other states over Ohio's stiff axle-mile tax (up to 2½? a mile per truck) on all trucks traveling in the state may be eased by the state legislature this year. Not only have Ohio truckers lost their freedom from local taxes in other states, but the law itself has been a flop; instead of bringing in $20 million in new revenues, it has netted only half that amount and helped drive 18 firms out of the state...
...other six regional centers will be built at Peabody, Mass, (near Boston), Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Levittown, Pa., Houston, and somewhere on Long Island. Allied will finance a fourth of the centers (including Bergen Mall), expects that insurance companies and local realtors will furnish capital for the others. To help pay for its part in the huge venture, Allied last week asked the Securities & Exchange Commission's permission to issue some $16.5 million worth of common stock (300,000 shares...