Word: localized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indignation will be quelled, as was mine, when learning the motive behind the acceptance of money for testimonials. While I don't pretend to know what all the Senators did with their checks, I do know that Senator Nye endorsed his $1,000-check and gave it to local charity THREE WEEKS PRIOR TO THE APPEARANCE OF THE ADVERTISEMENT wherein he gave his opinion (?) of Lucky Strikes. I don't remember the exact organization he favored, but it was either a crippled children's home or an orphanage in eastern North Dakota...
...watermelon or bushel of peaches. Then things are hunka dory. Insurance men get in a town and make a stand in with those in power then they keep others out. The first insurance man is allowed to peddle his insurance under the pretext that he is a local man. It may not be in restraint of trade but it certainly gives a lot of people a chance to work a little graft. It never helps the town because a lot of the inhabitants get mad and buy from other places...
...words-"I will not tolerate Sit-Down strikes"-and recalled an old law which empowers the Government to step in when a State is unable to put down public disorder. Senator Borah, the Senate's greatest constitutional lawyer, reminded his fellows that the Government could do nothing until local officials announced themselves thwarted...
...Indian eyes the feature of this document which permits the white British Governor of any province to act not only with the advice of the local native cabinet but also without their advice or against their advice, is the feature most open to question. In British eyes it means that each white Governor can be trusted to allow each native cabinet all proper latitude and scope toward development in India for the first time of representative democracy, while vigilantly curbing any cabinet activities of an unfortunate or subversive nature...
...Barcelona, the capital of more or less autonomous Catalonia (through which supplies for Madrid enter Spain in a steady stream), local President Luis Companys umpired a heroic political dogfight in which the Cabinet of this one of the Spains fell. At last Barcelona's quarreling hot anarchists & communists and warmed-over socialists & republicans grew so helplessly embroiled that most of them seemed relieved when President Companys agreed last week to add the Premiership of Catalonia temporarily to his other offices and worries. Dispatches reaching Valencia said that what had chiefly been accomplished at Barcelona was to "oust the anarchists...