Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Biggest hazard was Lodge's feud with his former ally, National Committeeman William H. Brennan. Their dispute was over local issues, but Ike's friends feared Brennan might join the Taft minority, split the delegation. Lodge succeeded in displacing Brennan as national committeeman with former Governor James C. Shannon. Lodge then withdrew his opposition to William A. Purtell, a Hartford businessman, who was nominated for U.S. Senator. In an atmosphere of uneasy harmony, brought .about by these moves, the Ike slate of delegates was elected...
...Virginia. The poll was part of a five-year effort to open the Medical Society to Virginia's 146 Negro doctors (who are not eligible for membership in the American Medical Association as long as they are barred from the state society) and will probably influence other local medical groups among the 45 which must also take part in the decision...
...plaque "in memory of white men of Charles City County [Va.] who gave their lives in World Wars I & II" was banned from the county courthouse by local authorities as "discriminatory" because it omitted the names of one Indian and ten Negro veterans. The local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which had sponsored the memorial, held a dedication service for it anyhow. "If anything, we are being discriminated against," said a chapter member. Chapter President Mrs. A. G. Copland added: "We thought the colored people would like to recognize their servicemen with a plaque of their...
...Calif, presented a big bouquet of flowers to Mrs. Nobuko Coronel, Filipino-Japanese war bride of a hometown veteran, to help convince her that she was welcome in the U.S. The greeting ceremony was arranged (and more than 70 citizens were moved to write letters of welcome) after a local citizen had sent her a note condemning her marriage to Corporal Robert A. Coronel and warning her that she was not wanted in Alhambra...
...charged with conspiracy, forgery and the theft of $285,714 worth of government bonds. It took the best efforts of France's Serété three years to determine just how De Récy had got the bonds and what he had done with them. One local judge was sent whimpering to an insane asylum after working on the complicated case...