Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic Ocean in sufficient time to prevent any real success on the part of an enemy. . . ." Admiral Leahy backed the President's program to the hilt, and incidentally added a new reason of his own for a Big Navy-"Possible exploitation or seizure of the Republics of Central and South America." But he knew as well as the President that a Big Navy means a Big Navy in the Pacific and nowhere else...
...Japanese advance which rolled down through Shantung intending to capture Suchow (TIME, Jan. 17) was badly behind schedule last week and Chinese guerilla warfare was getting into its stride, in both north and central China. Large guerilla forces reportedly recaptured Hoh-sien, some 35 miles up the Yangtze from Nanking, surrounded Tsining in Shantung...
...fellow-fisherman of Frank-lin Roosevelt, has tinkered with trains- toy and real. On his Rhinebeck, N. Y. farm a foot-high locomotive chuffs over 600 yd. of miniature track, while its owner potently sits on the boards of such full-sized lines as Great Northern and Illinois Central. Five years ago Railroader Astor purchased five acres of Bermuda's 19 square miles of tax free soil,* began to build a lordly tropical house, "Ferry Reach," and meantime extended his land along the waterfront on St. George's Island. Main difficulty was that "Ferry Reach...
This is a private organization which operates a spa in the central Georgia mountains where the President occasionally went to swim after becoming paralyzed by poliomyelitis. Although doctors know that the chief merit of Georgia Warm Springs Foundation over a swimming pool or big bathtub is the fact that the residents can bathe in the open air in winter time, the place became a mecca for infantile-paralytics. After paying off mortgages with the dance money, putting up new buildings, Georgia Warm Springs had accommodations for about 300 infantile-paralytics at $21 per week, and some 75 charity cases...
...some one deed to start a great one." As a result, readers are not likely to have much confidence in his portraits of the good people of Boston, or to take without question the many scenes in which they act with violence. Boundary Against Night nevertheless melodramatizes its central point: that a society which falls into panic when a few policemen leave their beats is badly in need of a moral housecleaning...