Word: locally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mineworkers whose own welfare and retirement fund was now shut off a few had their own ideas about a defense fund. "We believe a kitty should be raised to alleviate poverty in the mining fields first," said a 500-member Pennsylvania local of the U.M.W. in a telegram to Lewis. ". . . Charity begins at home...
...goes where, who meets whom, who said what. Turkey's jittery police often resort to drastic measures. Occasionally an Istanbul newspaper notes briefly and enigmatically that the body of a Turk or an Eastern European has been fished up from the dark waters of the Bosporus. One local definition of such events: "Death from over-interrogation...
...local affiliated with the A.F.L. Teamsters and called a strike. Jergens knew when it was time to make a concession; he passed out a blanket 15% wage increase. The strike ended, and the workers quit the union. Nevertheless, an appeals court found Jergens guilty of unfair labor practices and ordered him to bargain with the union. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld that decision, thus requiring Jergens to sit down and bargain with the Teamsters even though the union may no longer represent any of his employees...
Almost all the way he was protected by a crew of Yard police, local police, and secret service agents, who pushed the crowd from place to place and carefully ran off the Prime Minister's visit in accordance with a strict itinerary...
...Harvard Co-operative Society, a local merchandising and valeteria outfit, held what amounted to a meeting Wednesday afternoon. Thirty leisured students attended the affair, although the Board of Directors had previously extended a blanket invitation to anyone with a Coop card. As each member entered the Harvard Hall gathering-room, he was presented with a red treasurer's report, a white monograph on the Society's history, and a blue manual of by-laws, a color scheme cleverly designed to prepare the audience for the patriotic fervor to follow...