Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in a famous opinion of 1892, made this important point. The case concerned a New Bedford, Mass, policeman, fired from his job by the mayor because he solicited political funds, an activity banned by a local rule. The policeman claimed that he had been denied his constitutional right to express his political opinions. Ruled Justice Holmes: "There is nothing in the Constitution ... to prevent the city from attaching obedience to this rule as a condition to the office of policeman, and making it part of the good conduct required. The petitioner may have a constitutional right...
Bare Knuckles. Returning to Detroit in 1935, Reuther plunged into union work, and organized a U.A.W. local whose membership grew from 78 to 30,000 in one year. Leader of Detroit's first big sitdown strike at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Plant, he also played a major role in the U.A.W.'s unionization of Ford. Reuther's bitterest foes were the U.A.W.'s Communists. He won his first major battle with the Communists in 1946, when he took the U.A.W.'s presidency away from R. J. Thomas, whom the Communists had supported. He clinched...
...last five years. Committee Counsel Theodore Kiendl prodded Nolan into an admission: Jarka paid off not only labor racketeers but agents and executives of shipping companies to get their unloading business. E.g., a vice president of the Waterman Steamship Lines got $2,500 a year for three years, the local manager of the Holland-America Line got $15,000 a year for two years...
...motive force behind the Schools Committees of the Crimson Key and the nation's Harvard Clubs has been a subtle blend of two strands of chauvenism. The first is local pride, which students bring to College with them and transform into Southerners Clubs and Chicago cliques; the second is Harvard pride, which graduates carry out of Cambridge and store up in great quantities in their local Harvard Clubs...
...Local academicians attribute the rhyme to an outbreak of deviationism by several young instructors in a major social science department...