Word: localized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With old age pensions looming ever larger as a factor in Depression politics, observers were not surprised last week to see a deal consummated in politically sophisticated Massachusetts between one of the major parties and a local politician who had rounded up the Townsend Plan vote. "Buyer" was the Republican candidate for Governor, blue-blooded Leverett Saltonstall. "Seller" was William H. McMasters, 64, of Cambridge, who looks something like old Dr. Francis E. Townsend. Published "price": a promise in Mr. Saltonstall's platform to make "an earnest effort to have this bill [Townsend General Welfare Act*] brought before Congress...
...misinformed principal of a local public institution of learning wrote that he had students "well qualified to teach Harvard boys." As yet Brooks House has not offered to accept the proposition...
Perhaps most of the local interest in the Military Men is centered in the mule situation. As last year, not one, but two, beasts will accompany the Corps, one being "Mr. Jackson," the real government issue mule, and the other being "Poncho," the little mule from Ecuador. Last year with the Pointers "Poncho" batted .300 falls in eight games...
Replying to charges in the local press that universities were "hotbeds of Communism" and that by implication, through his support of Loyalist Spain, he himself was a Communist, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, last night branded these statements as "the universal trick of all people trying to sway public opinion...
...survey will involve appraisals of every house as to present value and cost of needed repairs. HOLC figures that financing such repairs would make its mortgages more secure, give mortgage companies more scope for investment, reward the city with sounder tax values, besides assisting the building industry, raising the local standard of living. Boasts HOLC's Maryland Director Herbert L. Grymes of his reconditioning division: "For every dollar we have spent in improvements, the properties have gained $2.44. . . ." Last week the U. S. Government also did the following for and to U. S. Business...