Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...western Pennsylvania and swung on the company weighman for cheating. Next morning young Philip Murray was fired for "engaging in a brawl on company property." To his surprise, the 600 miners in town walked out on strike in his defense, then elected him president of their United Mine Workers local. The strike was broken, and a sheriff's squad put Phil Murray on a train for Pittsburgh and told him not to come back. "I've never had a doubt in my mind since then of what I wanted to do with my life," said Murray 45 years...
...living, unemployed, on a dole of $6.90 a week, to win a seat on both the town and county councils of Gifhorn. He was Brownshirt Wilhelm Schepmann, 58, last chief of staff of Hitler's Storm Troopers. Schepmann won easily, without even bothering to campaign. In other local elections in Lower Saxony the neo-Nazis campaigned on the slogan: "Stand fast. Remain German . . . We shall return." The Refugee Party, which had the Nazis' support, won 17% of the total vote...
...would like to argue for Educational Radio, which is being tried in a few university communities, but largely if not entirely on the FM bands. The resulting area served in most cases is the community which by virtue of the local sponsoring institutions need Educational Radio less than smaller or more remote areas not served by any higher educational institutions...
Professors could not agree yesterday on whether the recent German elections portend the rise of nazism. Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, felt that the small increase of Nazi strength in local elections does not indicate a general trend...
...never suggested that the Democrat's sweep is Philadelphia rested on ethnic considerations alone. As everyone concedes, it rested mainly on the zeal of local Democrats. Yet it is fair to say, as we did, that Philadelphia Democrats were not plagued by the same factor that plagued Boston Democrats, the Reds-in-government issue operating on people highly sensitive to the problem of Communism in general. Cities with heavy Catholic vote of cities like say, Los Angeles, where exacerbation of subversion is now a ghastly vogue, offered problems to Stevenson worker's that Philadelphia...