Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...became a pressagent for a Las Vegas gambling house. In 1950 he bought the Sun property, including $2,500 in cash assets, with a $1,000 down payment, then took off after Democratic Senator Pat McCarran. Last year Greenspun won an $80,000 out-of-court settlement from some local gambling houses when he sued on charges that McCarran had conspired with them to take their advertising out of the Sun (TIME...
Other boys were joking about it as they left the hall, but Pit sat down by himself to think it over. He felt far from being a Christian, decided to do nothing about his pledge, just wait and see what would happen. What happened was that the local Episcopalian minister, who got Pitney's pledge card from Evangelist Sunday, spoke to his mother, and Pitney honored his word by joining the church. "If it hadn't been for that, I don't know when I'd have joined, if ever," he says...
PUBLIC SERVICE (LOCAL) : Station WBAW of Barnwell, S.C., for its "new and attractive concept in religious broadcasting" in its series, Church of Your Choice...
...motorcycle and roaring about the streets. The judge, however, had no intention of clapping him in jail. "You will never know the beauties of nature," said he, "if all you do is drive through it like a madman." The boy's sentence: a year-long membership in the local walking club...
...known throughout the district as the "Chocolate Judge" because he once sentenced a little girl, convicted of stealing chocolate, to donate a candy bar each week to an orphanage. More respectful Germans, however, have another name -"The Solomon of Darmstadt" - for the man chiefly responsible for cutting the local delinquency rate...