Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Just how many men altogether were called up was a Pentagon secret-or something of a secret to Americans at least. After three weeks of fishbowl mobilizing, the Defense Department was tightening up on security. It advised local newspapers to publish the figures for local calls, but asked the U.S. press to print no nationwide totals. Reason: there was no use "making things easy for the enemy by doing his bookkeeping...
Even his own union local was against Harry Bridges. It took all the wiles he had learned in years of twisting and turning with the Communist Party line to put off the longshoremen's demand for a formal endorsement of the U.S. military action in Korea. Bridges' parliamentary tactics stalled a vote on the resolution at the first meeting of Local 10; some of Harry's muscle boys broke up a second meeting with a well-timed fist fight...
Workers from party-line unions-the Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers, the United Office and Professional Workers, the United Electrical Workers, the Marine Cooks and Stewards-canvassed busily for "peace" signatures. U.A.W. Communists in the big Ford local circulated petitions on the assembly lines. At the Kaiser-Frazer plant, angry U.A.W. unionists flung one peace collector out bodily. Earnest youths turned up on campuses in New York, Chicago and Austin, Texas. In some states, impatient cops, out of sheer exasperation, arrested canvassers on charges of disorderly conduct...
...witnesses testified-gambling in Broward County is controlled by New York and New Jersey gangs, and bookmaking in Miami Beach by the S & G Syndicate, which also has investments in valuable beach property. But the hearing produced an interesting tale about the S & G, which was a local racket until it began having certain difficulties last year...
...Englishman's home used to be his castle," roared outraged Householder William Clarke of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, but the protest was in vain. The local district council, of which he himself was a member, had decided that Clarke's house would make a better village office building. When Clarke refused to budge, the council sent out five burly bailiffs to carry out the condemnation order. Aided by two casual volunteers, the bailiffs picked up Clarke, dragged him down a rose-lined drive and dumped him, in a public road...