Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last August, Labor Boss Thomas F. Lewis was murdered outside his Bronx apartment by a hired gunman who was killed, in turn, by a policeman. Lewis was president of Local 32-E of the A.F.L.'s Building Service Employes' Union, which had free rein at Yonkers Raceway...
...Hove, England, Mrs. Clement Attlee, famed for chauffeuring her ex-Prime Minister husband during his campaign travels, was fined ?1 ($2.80) for leaving her Humber Hawk parked without lights for nine hours and "obstructing" a local street...
...instructor, his mother a grade-school teacher. It was a strict Methodist household, but father and mother McElroy sensibly decided that if their three sons were to learn the ways of the world, they might as well do so at home. Instead of having their boys hanging around the local pool hall, they installed a pool table of their own. On Sunday evenings the family gathered for a weekly concert, with mother at the piano, the boys playing the clarinet, flute and French horn, and father McElroy singing...
...readily identifiable as Huey Long's Louisiana. Demagogue Cagney, married to a Yankee schoolteacher (Barbara Hale) and deep in an affair on the side with a swamp siren (Anne Francis), mounts the first rung of the political ladder by accusing a wealthy cotton-ginner of short-weighting the local farmers. When one of his followers kills a deputy and is shot, in turn, while awaiting trial, Cagney grabs headlines by haling the dying man into court and insisting that the trial be held...
...addition to the gifts to be presented to Miss Radcliffe '57, she will receive numerous modeling offers from local stores...