Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the presidential campaign purred smoothly along, some of the local races were hotting up. Last week's hottest...
...amateur detectives and junior G-men had almost forgotten about the man who shot Walter Reuther. But last week, investigating a $600 store burglary, state police picked up the trail of one Carl Bolton, 39. Bolton, for a short time, had been a vice president of a U.A.W. local, for a long time the leader and mastermind of a gang of petty thieves. Police found him in Indiana, arrested him and four members of his gang. One of them, an ex-con named Jack Miller, decided to talk...
Under the proposed plan, which is backed by the Kansas Medical Society and the Kansas Farm Bureau Federation, the university medical school and the local communities will cooperate in a threefold program to attract young doctors to rural districts. First, with a $4,000,000 grant, which will be asked of the state legislature in January, the medical school will be expanded to graduate 100 doctors a year, instead of the present 80. Next, individual communities will set up the graduates in practice at a cost of some $15,000, which the doctors will pay back in installments. Lastly...
Publisher Virgil Pinkley and his boss, Times Publisher Norman Chandler, preferred not to raid staffs of papers like the New York Daily News to get tabloid know-how for the jazzy paper they hoped to put out. Instead, they picked up local talent; for a city editor they got florid Ralph ("Casey") Shawhan, an ex-Hearstling who knew the town well but had turned to movie pressagentry five years...
...Italians knew very well that more money would not necessarily make better pictures. What they feared was that American money could keep them from making any pictures at all. For Italy had become a popular Hollywood "location," and the visiting moguls were tossing money around freely enough to drive local costs right out of the Italians' reach. Items...