Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political Career: Campaigned for Harding at 12, headed a local finance committee in the Coolidge campaign at 16, elected to the Republican State Central Committee at 22, became California's youngest assemblyman at 24, its youngest state senator at 26, the youngest Republican National Committeeman at 30, and, at 33, the Republican National Committee's youngest Executive Committee chairman ever. In 1945, Governor Earl Warren, who got his political start from old Joe Knowland, appointed Joe's son Billy to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Hiram Johnson. The news first reached Major Knowland...
Three months ago, with the help of a local British fisherman, a Polish fishing vessel, apparently in trouble, was guided into the port of Whitby. In incomprehensible Polish and ragged German, seven members of the Polish crew managed to explain that they had locked their captain in the lavatory, the political officer in his cabin, and had headed for Britain to seek asylum from Red rule...
They were local boys, safely down from the hills, where they had been fellaghas (nationalist outlaws), hunted by posses of steel-helmeted French troops. They had come in obedience to one of the strangest truces in modern history: a French promise to forgive past offenses, and give them immunity from prosecution, if they surrendered with their arms...
Every time a provincial election is held in Germany, some excitable correspondents cable that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer faces a precarious vote of confidence. The fact is, Der Alte has the largest parliamentary majority of any political leader in any major West European country. Local setbacks to his party at best only suggest a trend (as do similar elections in the U.S.), but they cannot bring him down. Last week 9,000,000 West Germans went to the polls in Hesse and Bavaria. Adenauer's Christian Democrats lost some strength in Bavaria but kept control of the local legislature...
...Adenauer himself, he was off to Berlin to campaign in still another local election. For one audience he had a piece of news: he will shortly cease to be his own Foreign Minister in order to spend more time making certain "that the new German army is the servant, not the ruler, of the people and the government...