Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Career: an insurgent Democrat, he entered South Philadelphia ward politics while still a student, ran the local Al Smith presidential campaign in 1928. As a young lawyer, he represented cops and the city's firemen's union, ran unsuccessfully for court clerk (1928), district attorney (1931) and Congress...
Limited staffs and facilities are the main reasons the local units will not admit a larger group of new men. The size of the College units is decided by superior headquarters. The Air Force and Army each have already asked for an additional officer. One man, however, is not felt to be enough to allow additional expansion of either unit beyond the number of freshmen admitted this year...
Above all else, he has enticed men from all over the world to the Observatory to gain the wealth of catalogued observation as well as the understanding of new methods and equipment, to contribute and to learn, to solve the questions of the skies that are not local to one continent or one people, but universal...
...Both local service units are now waiting for superior headquarters to send them more specifying the number of sopho- sources who can remain in the programs. Boetrom expects the Air Force quote to be almost 100 percent of the applicants, bet Colonel Charies P. Summerall, professor of Millitary Science and Tacties, said Last night that he had no idea what the quota would be for his unit. Quotas are expected to be received for both units sometime...
German, French, Beigian, Dutch, and Norwegian union men are all participating this year, as well as seven United States representatives. Their positions in organizations run all the way from local union official to vice-president of an international union...