Word: locally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taught the Council that it should supervise more carefully appeals to undergraduates for money. In connection with the question of student funds, it is to be noted that the Council has set up a new policy of concentrating its charity at home. Thus, while $300 less was given to local charities, $600 more was added for scholarships, which meant that twice as many were awarded. In addition, the Council helped to make swimming a major sport, to change some aspects of the Commencement exercises, and advised on the American History Plan...
...third-party chieftains and some 40 of their friends and associates at a pleasant farmhouse near Hudson, Wis. The meeting on the Potomac looked like simple Roosevelt curiosity. The barbecue on the Hudson farm looked like the beginning of a national alliance, or at least of local modus vivendi, between two once faithful Roosevelt allies...
Last week, while a U. S. Circuit court was giving NLRB another one in the bread basket (see above), the Second Appellate Court of Illinois upheld the convictions for contempt, clearly informed Illinois employers that State and local law still protected them from illegally conducted sit-downs. Said the Court: "There is nothing in the Wagner Act which deals with the subject of violence or any illegal acts committed by employes in the course of an industrial dispute, and in our opinion Congress did not by this enactment deprive or attempt to deprive the States of their police power...
...Angels Camp, Calaveras County, Calif., last week there was a lot of hopping being done. Local businessmen were holding the ninth Annual International Jumping Frog Jubilee. For Calaveras County miners the jubilee, inspired by Mark Twain's fabulous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," is the sports event of the year. On Angels Camp's main street thronged 35,000 spectators, including overdressed cinema celebrities to watch the two-day classic. The rules: 1) three jumps to a frog, the total distance to count as official; 2) each frog might be shaken thoroughly to discover...
Biggest suit was started last February by William S. Brown, as president of the General Drivers, Helpers and Inside Workers Union Local 544 in Minneapolis, and individually, also by Farrell Dobbs, a member of the union, and the fabulous Dunne brothers, Grant, Miles and Vincent, who led the spectacular truck drivers' strike in Minneapolis in 1934. The plaintiffs are demanding $470,000 for articles in the Daily Worker linking them with the criminal underworld...