Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...underworld of imaginary devils," charging that the Republicans wanted to wreck development of natural resources, irrigation and power projects. Nonsense, said Eisenhower. Many of these projects had been started by the Republican 80th Congress, which Truman calls the "worst." The Republicans, said Ike, want to safeguard a measure of local control over the projects instead of surrendering all to "whole-hog Federal Government...
French Reform: Moroccan and Tunisian nationalist leaders in 1946 demanded the suppression of the French secretariat, administration and gendarmarie, the complete elimination of French influence from government except in local bodies where there was a French minority. The French government replied with a program of reforms which provided for Arab representation in local and municipal government. Reform plans were submerged under a hail of protests from the 1) French colonials, who thought the Arabs were getting too much, and 2) the Arab nationalists, who thought they were not getting enough. France still believes a compromise possible. The French...
American Parallel. When an American tells a Frenchman that the U.S. once fought a war to throw off a colonial power, the Frenchman is apt to reply that the Americans have oversimplified their own history. The Indians were the true local population of America and they were pretty well exterminated by the colonists, say the French. In other words, colonialism in U.S. history involves three elements, not two: the natives (the Indians), the European colonists (George Washington) and the parent government (George III). When the Americans instinctively and sentimentally rush to the side of the Arabs in North Africa, they...
Yesterday's decision upheld the Levering Act that requires a loyalty oath from all California state, county and local government employees. But the Court ruled that this act removed the regents' authority to make such regulations as the special oath...
Cambridge police issued a nine-state alarm for the youth, checked all local hotels, railroad stations, and airports, but were unable to locate...