Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheers for Father. Cooper had not been back in Pulaski County long before he began to drift into local politics. Following Kentucky custom, candidates for office announce themselves on "court day," when, after the grand jury is impaneled, the judge recesses the court for the day and turns the courtroom over to the candidates. When John Sherman Cooper announced that he was running on the Republican ticket for the state House of Representatives in 1927, the crowd cheered. "They weren't cheering for me," says Cooper. "They were cheering for my father." He won without opposition...
After two years in Frankfort, he went back to Pulaski County and tried for the local political plum: county judge. In the election of 1929 he won handily, and moved into the office his father and grandfather had occupied before...
...county judge, in the Kentucky sense, is the local law enforcer, political leader, friend in need of the political faithful, comptroller of patronage and state-relief funds, and father confessor to anyone with a problem. Cooper found that as many as 30 people crowded into his office every morning. His desk was in the corner of the room and the potbellied stove was in an adjacent corner. Cooper recalls what it was like on a cold day: "Early in the morning everybody would cluster close up around the stove until...
...time most of the children of Auckland took up the monkeys' cause, and the local fruit dealer did a land-office business as moppets flocked around to buy bananas. Mingling freely with all who came offering food and genuine friendship, the monkeys would eat their bananas with relish, and then, with unerring aim and discernment, shy their skins at whatever furtive zoo keeper chanced to be lurking near by. At last, frustrated, the zoo men went to a base stratagem: they left a plate of rum-soaked food standing near, to tempt the refugees. One poor, pusillanimous monkey fell...
...seizing and subduing a vast and unwieldy country of 600 million hungry people. Peking's first solution of the problem was to divide China into six administrative regions, all but one of them in the charge of a first-line army general. The six leaders were, in effect, local warlords bound together by Communist discipline...