Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hill (pop. 9,177), Wilson (23,010), Gastonia (23,069) and Durham (71,311), Negroes were elected to local public office for the first time since Reconstruction days. In Greensboro (pop. 74,389), Councilman William Hampton, who rang up a first when elected in 1951, was re-elected to a second term...
...means careful clearance with Congressmen and state political bosses before making appointments. Sherman Adams, crusty, hard-working ex-governor of New Hampshire, at first often overlooked this clearance. Then, when the squawks began, he grew so cautious that his office became a bottleneck. Another sore point among state and local partymen: the tendency of eager new Republican bureau heads to hurry the hiring of subordinates, thus bypassing patronage channels...
Before regional and local federal appointments can be made, Len Hall will have to improve the G.O.P. state machinery. The ideal would be an efficient hierarchy of command, reaching down to the counties, along which could flow all applications for jobs. But in most states the G.O.P. operates cumbersomely. New York is a model of political precision: Governor Tom Dewey makes the decisions and keeps a man in Washington to speak for him (ex-Congressman Robert T. Ross). But few states are so well disciplined. In Pennsylvania, appointments need the approval of such feuding bosses as Senator Jim Duff, Governor...
...months I have been out of a job, and I'm broke. I wanted to prove that I am still fit, useful and worth employing." There were four job offers in no time, but before accepting any, the police advised the major to drop in at the local station for a little chat. "They tell me I can be jailed [possibly for six months]," said the major, as if remembering that Napoleon, too, had written his memoirs in captivity. "It was my last-ever flight," he said. "I meant it as a spectacular swansong...
...public beliefs and public morals of their creators," the News-Sentinel said, "many of the world's masterpieces would have to be tossed into the garbage can." Letters to the editor from all over the state blasted the Legion for its part in the ban. One called them "our local commissars of culture...