Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least you could do was cut out the "no hunting or fishing" sign in your pic of Ike [Sept. 28]. I would surely hate to see him hauled in before the local magistrate and fined $10 for every fish...
...first Secretary of Labor, Wilson named William B. Wilson (no kin), who had been secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers. Warren Harding appointed James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, who had been president of an Iron, Steel & Tin Workers local. Herbert Hoover named William N. Doak, who had been vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Franklin Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins, and Harry Truman chose Lewis Schwelenbach and Maurice Tobin...
...farm hand, clerk, traveling salesman and partner in a bookstore, Thornton settled down in a mortgage business in an office over a Dallas cigar store. The business grew into the present Mercantile National Bank, one of Dallas' Big Three. Although Bob became a bank president and a local big shot, he made his reputation as a supersalesman. "Everybody's got to sell," he says. "Preacher's got to sell his sermon, butcher's got to sell his beefsteak." And Thornton had to sell Dallas...
Weak sister of the arts at Harvard for many years, local theatre last week began a cure which its doctors hope will bring it back to health. Still very much in the experimental stage, the Acting Laboratory is hardly a wonder drug, but it can be a tremendous stimulant to dramatic activity in the College...
...Local bettors presage a Lion victory on two counts; they feel the big, veteran Columbia line will be able to stop the Crimson backfield, and they feel the Dick Carr-Dale Hopp passing combination--perhaps the best in the Ivy group--will overwhelm the Crimson secondary. But the New York betting is not confident, and several papers have rated the game a toss...