Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local scene, the committee has been canvassing votes for George Markham, who is running for state legislator on both Democratic and Progressive tickets, from wards 5, 6, 7, and 8. The girls have been distributing campaign literature to the public, and have volunteered to baby sit for Markham voters and canvassers...
Bradford's campaign will be less pleasing to organized labor and the left wing in general. He stands mainly on his State House accomplishments, which include a $200,000,000 veterans housing program; efficient balancing of the state budget; no state tax on municipalities; juvenile delinquency aid; support of local education, and a long-range plan for highway reconstruction...
Magic, vaudeville, comedy, and singing will provide pre-halloween fun for 1,300 Boston youngsters this afternoon and evening when Phillips Brooks House stages its annual round of cider-and-doughnut parties at local settlement houses...
Explanation of this amazing circumstance is simple. A local candy maker, anxious to find just the right evocative name to describe his latest confection, was swept away by a zeal for imagery; "Pom Poms" are the result, now on sale at your favorite drug or cigar store...
...explained matters to me, all this enforcement of the parking regulations started about ten years ago, just prior to the war. As he recalled if, students were allowed to park in the disputed area . . . this was obviously denying the Cambridge garage owners a nice chunk of money; consequently the local real estate lobby and the Cambridge garage owners had pressure brought to bear and this area became a fire hazard. Fine and dandy in the good old days when the student with a car was a man who had had it given to him and could afford the fifteen dollar...