Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main purposes of the document was to give definite importance to the position of Vice-president; by placing him in charge of the Freshman Committee, whose place in P. B. H. is a central one, the Cabinet has carried out this objective to perfection. Selecting twelve to fifteen Freshmen each fall for the Committee is a task not to be scorned as menial, but to be considered rather as a responsibility which only a capable man can fulfill. And the holding of a competition in the spring is a handy device for permitting Sophomores and Juniors to make an official...
...cheaper than by using the next nearest port, established and powerful San Francisco. Though Stockton's tonnage increased each year they had scarcely passed the half million mark by 1935, and business was slow. Somewhat responsible were the railroads which by their delay in rate adjustment, encouraged the Central Valley's shippers to continue shipping produce destined for boats on down to San Francisco instead of to the nearer port of Stockton. But the big factor is that water-borne traffic follows a comparatively crude rate structure which does not discriminate in short distances. Cargoes move from Europe...
...silver-haired professor of bacteriology at Columbia University, announced in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that by-products of the measles virus, known as inclusion bodies, can be brought to sight by a blue-black stain called nigrosin which pathologists use to color and distinguish certain cells of the central nervous system from all other cells. No bacteriologist before Miss Broadhurst, who began her long career by teaching biology at New Jersey State Normal School, seems to have used nigrosin to stain, and therefore to see, these measles inclusion bodies...
...vice president of Philadelphia's Strawbridge & Clothier department store, became chairman of the Polo Association two years ago, he noted that the handicapping job was growing too big for Eastern riding breeches. Forthwith, the U. S. polo realm was divided into six parts (Northeastern, Southeastern, Central, Northwestern, Southwestern, Pacific Coast), and each part was permitted a representative on the Board of Governors. This year, for the first time, the recommendation of handicaps for its own member-players was taken over by a local committee in each section. Final approval of handicaps remained, however, with the Board of Governors...
PLOT AND COUNTERPLOT IN CENTRAL EUROPE-M. W. Fodor-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Marcel Fodor, 47-year-old Hungarian, for many years Central European correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, the New York Evening Post, takes a correspondent's-eye-view of the Danube and Balkan countries, pounces on numerous unknown and little-known facts...