Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress when it wrote the new law: the gambling business of the U.S. almost came to a standstill. A 10% tax on gross business was probably more than the traffic would bear. Even more discouraging was form 11-C. Names and addresses on it would be open to local police, who are supposed to enforce antigambling laws in 47 states (gambling is legal in Nevada). Even a bribed policeman would find it hard to protect a gambler whose name and address appeared on a federal list...
This year has been a good one so far as local jobs are concerned. Industrial expansion in near-by Trenton has drained the Princeton labor market, and as a result, about ten percent of working students are employed in the town. In most years only five percent have gotten soda-fountain, Western Union, and the other types of jobs available in Princeton...
Cambridge detectives this week began a city-wide drive to eliminate so-called "obscene and pornographic" literature from local newsstands. Two twenty-five cent reprints have been banned by the police in the last four days, and officers searched the book racks of one store in the Square yesterday in a hunt for copies of the two blacklisted volumes...
...police move came as Alfred Velluci, candidate for the Cambridge School Committee, announced that he was calling a meeting of local veterans' organizations for next week to fight the "sex books" "threat to the morals of Cambridge's youth. Velluci told the CRIMSON that Police Chief Patrick F. Ready would be the featured guest speaker...
Stargel's persuasive brother, Willard, a pretty fair football player, himself, once again shares top honors for influencing Bob this time in bringing him to Harvard. Willard, after a fine career at end for Walnut Hills, decided to go to the local college, the University of Cincinnati. He made the U. of C. team easily, but rode the bench several times a season when the Bearcats would play Southern schools. Because Southern schools insisted that he could not play, and Cincinnati acquiesced. Willard often wondered whether he had made the right college choice...