Word: local
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reminded citizens of their duties to charity in connection with the opening drive of the 1939 Mobilization for Human Needs, supporting community chests which handle local welfare and relief problems in hundreds of cities...
...Federal employes). The most sincere New Dealer of the lot, Maury Maverick, has got himself into political trouble in Texas by espousing free speech for Communists and letting the home folks think he has "gone national." This week Mr. Maverick got into his worst trouble yet. Along with a local official and a former business agent of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, he was indicted by a Bexar County grand jury charged with using union contributions to pay poll taxes for some of his Labor voters...
When her postmaster father, appointed by Lincoln, died, she filled out his term, was officially designated for the job by Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor machination of local politico has interrupted her service since...
...first shipment of surgical dressings has gone forward on an unnamed ship. Women-in local chapters throughout the nation have begun the manufacture of layettes, operating gowns, hospital accessories...
...months or more, for the Vatican takes its time about filling important posts. Chicago-born, an able pitcher 33 years ago at St. Viator's College, dynamic Bishop Sheil became a diocesan official 15 years ago, has been a bishop for ten. His fame is more than local: in 1930 he founded, and today heads, the Catholic Youth Organization, official body for 7,000,000 Catholic youngsters...