Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First reports had it that an army lieutenant stopped the advancing troops just as they were about to capture Taruc, without the aid of Aquino. Actually, it was the barrio lieutenant, a local peace officer, who intervened; the army had nothing to do with it, and clearly understood its arrangement with Reporter Aquino...
...Scott Field, Baldwin discovered that several of the contractors had the same reason for refusing to build in the St. Louis area: "We just can't afford the payoff." The payoff was to corrupt A.F.L. building-trades union bosses and business agents. The racketeers, often in league with local subcontractors, concentrated on jobs where there was a fixed completion date, held them up with featherbedding, slowdowns and jurisdictional disputes until the completion deadline got close. Then they made themselves "available" to "fix things up" for the builder-at a price. Frightened contractors told Baldwin that those who refused...
Steamfitters' local, tried to collect $50,000 from a contractor building a $5,000,000 pipeline. In another story Baldwin told how A.F.L. Hod Carriers' Boss Paul H. Hulahan was involved in a similar shakedown. He also dug up evidence that union "expense" money was often unaccounted for by union leaders. The zealous P-D kept firing away in Page One stories, backed up Reporter Baldwin with biting editorials and cartoons. Baldwin's notes and P-D stories were turned over to House and Senate labor committees, the FBI and the Justice Department...
...Captain continues his search, he decides to present a panel show, "Brain's trust," to entertain the Army base. Made up of local oddities, the panel includes a love triangle composed of artist, wife, and rival. When the question of marriage is raised, these three breaks up the show, washing the soiled linen of their marriage in public, while Sim tries unsuccessfully to shift the discussion to bottle-flys and cows...
Evans characterized the program as an "act of self defense for New England stu- dents against Southern and Western schools which are freezing out scholars of the Northeastern region." The Board of Higher Education, he explained, would negotiate contracts with New England universities allowing for a larger number of local students to attend...