Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Issued an executive order that would allow the sale abroad, for local currencies, of some $700 million worth of surplus farm commodities...
...Though the "depression" of 1954 has been a favorite topic for some Democrats, the generally improved U.S. economy is no longer a national issue. But unemployment is a local factor in some scattered districts. Example: Indiana's Third (South Bend), where the biggest employer, Studebaker, laid off more than half its force in the past year. Republican Representative Shepard Crumpacker, seeking a third term, is in trouble...
...While the farm price-support issue is still a pregnant national topic for debate, there is little chance of a big shift away from the Republican Party in the farm districts. But the farm situation will have some local effects. Example: Missouri's Fourth District, which lies half in suburban Kansas City and half in adjoining farm country. There, Republican Incumbent Jeffrey P. Hillelson's troubles are caused more by the elements than by the Eisenhower farm program. The district has been hard hit by drought, and in the Fourth District of Missouri, the incumbent Congressman...
Situations & Personalities. Where national issues have no meaningful local application, most of the races in the 50 battleground districts are turning on local personalities or intraparty feuds or on both. Example: in Pennsylvania's Eleventh District (Wilkes-Barre), Republican strife is undercutting Representative Edward J. Bonin. The trouble began last spring when Republican Governor John Fine moved into his old bailiwick, Luzerne County, in an effort to unseat State Senator T. Newell Wood. Fine managed to beat Wood in the G.O.P. primary, but Republicans lost so much blood in the battle that Benin's campaign developed a serious...
...Kansas' First District (Topeka). Democrat Howard Miller slipped into the seat in 1952 because of local opposition to a Republican-favored dam (his 1952 campaign slogan: "Let's stop dam foolishness"). With the dam issue quieted down, G.O.P. Nominee William H. Avery, a Wakefield farmer, is expected to recapture the traditionally Republican district...