Word: localize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Level. As Ike said, the creed was an old one. But the man, the year and the place made it new and alive. This was not the local-boy-makes-good story. It was not the up-from-log-cabin story. Nor was Ike suggesting that all problems could be solved by the simple equations of rural Kansas. This was the story of fundamentals which had served Ike Eisenhower well -and through him, the nation. It was the creed of the man who could say "Free government is the political expression of a deeply felt religious faith...
...Federal Aid to Education: He opposes a law which puts "Washington bureaucracy" into education, because "education is one of those local functions that we should guard jealously . . . [But] I think that there is a certain level of education that is absolutely necessary . . . When we can show when any particular section does not have the proper, adequate means to educate its children to that level, I would certainly be in favor of help to that specific area...
...telegrams, have helicopters drop out of the sky to pick up signatures on Ike petitions, and otherwise seek to show that the voters want Ike. There is talk that some of the pros from the Eisenhower headquarters want to move into California to work on delegates, but the local volunteers are trying to hold them off. They say that the California delegation is of too high a type to welcome approaches by professional politicians...
Like thousands of other German youngsters, Hilde Speer, a button-bright 16-year-old student at Heidelberg's Elisabeth von Thadden School, would like nothing better than a chance to go to an American school. She saw her chance last spring in a notice in the local paper: a number of German youngsters were going to be sent to the U.S. as exchange students. Hilde wrote a letter stating her reason for wanting to go: "I want to become acquainted with the people [of the U.S.], the poor as well as the rich, the land, the big cities...
...rioting that swept the all-white Chicago suburb of Cicero when a Negro family tried to move into a local apartment (TIME, July 23), four town officials were flagrant accomplices of the mob. Police Chief Erwin Konovsky warned the Negroes to stay out of Cicero; two other policemen evicted them from the building in advance of the rioting; Town Attorney Nicholas Berkos conspired with police against the unwanted visitors. In Chicago last week, Cicero's four were convicted of crimes carrying maximum penalties of up to two years in prison...