Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power nationally, the governors who are members of that party take on special importance. They (rather than the Senators) handle the lion's share of the party patronage. They usually speak for and are responsible to the party organizations in their states. On them falls the pressure of local leaders who want a winner in November. The Republican governors are for Eisenhower for the same reason that the delegates from doubtful States are for him. They think he will...
Over the Cigars. The brothers settled down to wait and passed the time by fleecing eleven men who wandered, one by one, into the white frame bank during the robbery. Hugh, the local paper reported later, "spying a box of Mr. Noblitt's cigars . . . passed them around to the held-up depositors, and bade them smoke, later bidding them cease in their enjoyment and throw the cigars away...
...Walter Brown, Charley to Frank S. Taylor. They began ranching near Glasgow. Both enlisted in the army during World War I and fought in France. Afterward, as the years passed, they prospered. Hugh moved to British Columbia in 1935, but Charley stayed on in Montana. He served on a local school board, took part in community affairs, became widely known as a man of integrity, industry and honor...
After the present ultra-conservative government came into power in 1949, however, the official attitude toward Protestants changed. Many Roman Catholic priests, worried by Protestant proselytizing, began to preach inflammatory sermons. Most of the Protestants also belonged to the overturned Liberal Party; some local government officials were happy to get at political foes under the pretext of religious fervor...
...third-rate facilities or go elsewhere. (The few who could afford it went as far as Washington or New Orleans.) One who concerned himself with the problem was Hughes Spalding, prominent lawyer and Roman Catholic layman, who is a director of the Coca-Cola Co. and head of the local hospital authority. One he consulted early was Dr. Mays, president of Morehouse College...