Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, the beginning or the end of the President's conferences last week with and about Business. He also lunched with Bernard M. Baruch, also conferred with three utility executives, John Carpenter of Texas Power and Light, A. B. West of Nevada-California Electric, Daniel C. Green of Central & South West Utilities. But the most important conference of his week waited till one noon when two taxis pulled up at the White House spilling out as oddly-assorted a group of U. S. figures as ever called upon a President...
...property without due process than any President in U. S. history, he is the spiritual Andrew Jackson of the G. O. P. As a political saint, however, Lincoln has never had his birthday celebrated, like Jackson Day, with $100-a-plate dinners. Last week, to the Republican State Central Committee in Michigan came an idea for using Lincoln's feast day to make political mockery of Jackson Day. Their plan: to hold Lincoln Day dinners, the proceeds of which will be used not to pay Republican debts but to relieve the unemployed after five years of Democratic administration. Main...
This pro-German propaganda, a great deal better than any Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels and his Ministry of Propaganda know how to turn out in Berlin, alarmed Central Europe where people believed the Times was speaking for the British Government-approving Adolf Hitler's ambition to absorb Austria and at least part of Czechoslovakia. To reassure his Czechoslovaks, their popular President Eduard Benes had to have his party newsorgan Ceske Slovo announce: "The London Times today is no more than the mouthpiece of an influential group of titled people who in their paralytic fear of Germany are working...
Virgin Birth. Historical evidence is "inconclusive," although the Archbishop of York believes in it, as he does in the Resurrection, which the commission calls "the central fact in human history...
Luxuriating in the Pullmanesque accomodations of a Boston-bound streetcar as he was whisked at a mile-an-hour rate toward Mass. Station, the young Junior was deeply immersed in melancholy thoughts as the beautiful vistas of Central Square sped smoothly past his eye. He was brooding about how white snow can become black so quickly, about Necco Wafers as the orange monster zoomed past the candy factory, and about the impressive sheen on the back of all motormen's pants, when he suddenly became aware that he was being examined and discussed by the two persons seated directly...