Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everywhere Taft stopped in New Hampshire he drew attentive crowds. But he was abrupt and cold in greeting local leaders, brushed off autograph hunters and handshakers, cut short or sidestepped questioners. He charged that nobody knows what Dwight Eisenhower stands for, inquired slyly whether Ike would dare to attack the Truman Administration. In retrospect, some of Taft's own organization men granted that he offended the New England sense of fairness by insinuating that Ike is a captive of the Administration and could not campaign against it. Many an observer also concluded that his speeches about Ike were...
...Tennessee mountain cabin. This is just a legend. The Kefauvers were a branch of one of the first families of Madisonville. Tenn., a small (pop. 1,487) town in the foothills of the Great Smokies. Aside from Depression stringencies, father Robert Cooke Kefauver was comfortably fixed. He owned a local hardware store and served five times as mayor of Madisonville. To pick up extra money and toughen himself for football at the University of Tennessee, young "Keef" worked through one summer in a Harlan County (Ky.) coal mine. There he lived in a sweaty attic with four other miners...
...Tennessee he went Kappa Sigma, high-jumped, set a local discus record and played tackle on the varsity football squad. He was a good campus politician and was elected president of the student body. After getting his A.B. (in 1924), he taught math and coached football for a year in a high school at Hot Springs, Ark. One day he told a friend: "If I go on to be a football coach, I'll be through at 40. I'm going to Yale and be a lawyer...
Truman tells of an occasion when Pendergast asked him to attend a meeting of local contractors...
Perennial rumors that local college hockey would be bounced from the Boston Arena became fact last week when Walter A. Brown, Garden-Arena entrepreneur, announced at the final Hockey Writers Luncheon that the ice would be taken out of the St. Botolpn Street Ice Palace and replaced by a permanent basketball floor. As a result, the Boston Garden will have to bear the entire load of professional, college, and schoolboy hockey in the Metropolitan area beginning next season. Although their big games (B.C.-B.U., and Harvard vs. other Pentagonal League teams) will still take place in the North Station refrigerator...