Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your March 31 story on the London motorbuses visiting the U.S. with their "cockney" drivers: I see that you have fallen for the pernicious idea that all London workingmen drop their aitches . . . Unfortunately you are not alone in this habit. Our own BBC always finds it necessary ... to put "local" and plebeian language in the mouths of policemen, bus and taxi drivers, artisans and the "working class" in general. If TIME was a genuine student of the London scene, it would be aware that "cockney" idiom is almost extinct. This stigma of an elementary education has been eradicated...
...On.Templer's questionnaire asked to identify local Communists, their recruiting, agents, propagandists, and those shops supplying them with food and materials. British soldiers collected the forms in locked boxes. In the government residence at Kuala Lumpur, Templer opened the boxes in the presence of six representatives from Tanjong Malim, sent them home with a large photograph of the opening ceremony...
...months that the Conservatives have been in power, the backbenchers have had nothing but alibis to offer their constituents in place of the golden promises made on the hustings of more red meat and fewer controls. In a local election, depression-ridden Lancashire had just voted Laborite for the first time in its history. Eleven of the rebellious Tory backbenchers seized on the Lancashire slump to demand that Chancellor Rab Butler lift the purchase tax on textiles. When he would not, four more Tories joined the revolt...
...people should the federal government control the oil. More important I believe is the larger issue raised by the legalists in this discussion, that is, the ambiguity that would reflect upon other state controlled activities, particularly wharves where great investment has been made by the state and local authorities, should the act be passed, and the resultant diminution of the role of the non-federal governments as political units. Robert H. Stewart...
Speaking on "Ike on the Issues," Kulp also declared that Eisenhower is not for States Rights, but he is for assigning more powers and duties to local and state governments. Kulp claimed that Ike is opposed to loyalty oaths for teachers and against indiscriminate labelling of people as communists...