Word: localized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chances for any sort of progressive national party in 1940 were no greater after the Socialists had acted upon their prime political problem of the moment: whether, when, and how to align with the State and local laborite groups patterned upon New York's American Labor Party. By an infinitesimal margin the convention downed Leader Thomas' proposal that Socialists oppose the nomination but not necessarily the election of "capitalist" candidates on labor party tickets. It followed University of Chicago's Economist Maynard Kreuger in permitting affiliation with other groups only on condition that Socialists oppose any capitalist...
...only a cavalry colonel. When he became Minister of War in a Shah-less government (the former do-nothing Shah had moved to Paris), he acted more like the great Persian monarch. He imposed his will on hitherto independent fierce tribes, hanging dozens of warring sheiks, making other suspected local chieftains his permanent "guests." On a group of disobedient mullahs (Moslem priests) he applied the whip in person. Strongwilled, previously healthy followers of the absent Sultan Ahmad Shah, whom Reza Khan later had deposed, developed mysterious maladies from which they never recovered. One chief of polio committed suicide...
...Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, gave cash to keep The Beacon burning. Getting such hard-hitting liberals as Harold L. Ickes and Robert Marion La Follette to write for him, Factotum Harris soon found himself free to do an editor's job. His most constant local target was Chicago's notorious Kelly-Nash machine. Editor Harris labeled Mayor Kelly "a Charley McCarthy'' who has "not yet denounced American Motherhood. Aside from that, he hasn't missed a pitch...
...Climaxed its drive on what President Roosevelt considers the monopolistic practices of the cement industry. The industry has long maintained that local monopolies can be avoided only by a cooperative, nationwide, delivered-price system including both production cost and delivery cost as determined from a number of basing points. This meant that when the Government asked for cement bids, the figures were almost always identical even to the fourth decimal point. Calling this practice price collusion at the expense of the consumer. Franklin Roosevelt tried to halt it with NRA, through the Attorney General's office, and finally through...
Murder and kidnapping among a group of wealthy people marooned on a lonely island off Cape Cod, solved by likable local sleuth. Elisha Macomber. Plot: deft; atmosphere: good...