Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...response to this appeal, Legionaires across the nation took new interest in the welfare of lecture-goers. In Harrison, New York, the local post united with the Board of Education to push through a loyalty oath required of all who use Harrison school buildings, from visiting colleges lecturers to Boy Scouts...
Shortly thereafter, on November 12, James, M. Landis, Dean emeritus of the Harvard Law School, and Reverend E. Walter Chater, head of a local church, formed a committee to protest the Oath. Morally, they appealed that "loyalty cannot, in our opinion, be legislated," while they claimed that the oath was unconstitutional because it read, "I also do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I do not believe in the overthrow of our form of government," condemning lawful, as well as illegal, change...
...Then the local Legion post rushed in and added "socialistically and communistically inclined" to the string of descriptions about "Basic Economics." Later, at a hearing on the book, the letter writer admitted that he had not read it, but merely "glanced through" the book's 500 pages...
When the Knoxville Journal, one of the city's two papers, found out about it, it headlined the fact Tennessee was showing "Communist propaganda films." The next day, a local American Legion Post resolved that by the showing, Tennessee students "were being subjected to immoral and un-American information...
Sound & Fury. In Hughesville, Pa., the citizens voted to legalize local drinking after a hard-fought campaign during which the drys rang the town's church bells every hour and Anti-Prohibitionist Richard Schaeffer tooted his sawmill whistle every half hour...