Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...club will back liberal Democrats for local, state, and national office, and will work for an all-inclusive federal civil rights law. Other planks in the platform are the maintenance of rent controls for the duration of the housing shortage, a 70 cent hourly minimum wage, and extension of Social Security benefits...
...magazine will be distributed by staff members, other local AYDers, and some non-partisan students described by editor Lee Kamin '48 as "working as a protest to the University's decision." Street sales in the Square have received official sanction from police chief King...
...dramatic level, "The Survivors" reveals little that could be classed as sound theater, much less as entertaining or inspiring theater. The play takes place in a small Missouri town immediately after the Civil War. It concerns the perverse hatred of three brothers and their grandfather for a local rancher, who apparently contrived to have two of the brothers captured by the Rebels during the war as part of a long-range program designed to wipe out the entire family. There is some confusion as to whether the rancher actually intended the capture, and this suffices to prolong the revenge...
...since Chief Yellow Hand went on the warpath had Nebraska seen such an invasion. All week long three candidates in Nebraska's free-for-all presidential primary swept across the rich, rolling cattle-&-wheat country, whooping up the vote. Local air waves throbbed with campaign oratory. Autograph hunters had a field day. One enterprising Lincoln girl named Louise Carter managed to get herself photographed shaking hands with Bob Taft, Tom Dewey and Harold Stassen inside three days...
Since announcing his candidacy in December, Wallace has spoken 23 times in nine states to some 75,000 people (not counting radio audiences). Who were the people? Wechsler reported: "At virtually every stop the local left-wing stalwarts run the arrangements. It is the biggest show they have ever staged. But the political complexion of the audiences is definitely broader. It is a cross section of American discontent and insecurity...