Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work, managed to round up five good candidates for major offices-including himself and a senatorial aspirant (History "Professor Paul Fullam of Colby College) who quoted Socrates while explaining U.S. foreign policy. Using a catchy-and, for Republicans, ironic-slogan ("Maine needs a change"), Muskie made his fight on local issues. There were more than enough. Items...
...Muskie got his law degree from Cornell and set up practice in Waterville. After four years' service as engineering officer aboard a Navy destroyer escort in the Pacific, Muskie went back to Waterville, hung out his shingle again and married a local girl, Jane Gray (who, at 27, will quite possibly be the youngest and prettiest governor's lady in the U.S.). In 1947 he ran for mayor of Waterville and was beaten, then ran successfully for the state legislature, where he served until he resigned in 1950 to become Maine director of the Office of Price Stabilization...
...leaders of a C.I.O. restaurant workers' local tapped its welfare funds for $32,760 a year, plus two Cadillacs, a Packard, and gasoline for summer trips to the Catskills, winter trips to Florida...
...worse than the above, (f) the British are brave super and noble cheers cheers cheers. The only way for Peace is for all of them to dive into the sea and end it all." But he is at his best as a tactician in his own local revolution against the masters. Molesworth is succinct in a guide to "Kanes I Have Known" (e.g., "The 'Nonpliant...
...sickle is nailed to a wall of the seamen's union; in the frontier city of Darjeeling, where Tibetan Communists "squeeze across the border now and then." Soviet propaganda was everywhere, blanketing the bookshops, nudging Hollywood aside in the movie theaters. In one frontier district, Redding reports, the local garrison was marched, by squads, to see the Soviet film The Fall of Berlin, in which not one scene suggests that Americans participated in the defeat of the Nazis...