Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three year terms, they are Phillip C. Staples '04, of Philadelphia, and William C. Batchelder '05, of Chicago. Staples is president of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania and a former president of the Harvard Club of Philadelphia. Batchelder is commercial vice-president of the General Electric Company, central district, and a former president of the Harvard Club of Chicago...
...against the will of many Negroes) if the proposed merger of Southern and Northern Methodists goes through (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935, et seq.). The church which Philadelphia's Bishop Allen founded claims 1,000,000 members in the U. S., West Indies and Africa. Governed by no central authority, it has 15 bishops and a clergy of 8,000. Host to last week's sequicentennial was Bishop David Henry Sims, 47, a broad-shouldered six-footer who, from Philadelphia, supervises 700 churches in the East and one in Bermuda...
...Attica. N. Y., oldtime commuters on the Attica-Batavia branch of the New York Central Railroad planned a lugubrious "last-ride" ceremony to celebrate the discontinuance of the line. The ceremony was canceled when somebody found that, unnoticed, part of the line already had been torn...
...conclusion that The Red Pony contains erotic or esoteric matter too caviarish for the general. On the contrary, The Red Pony is neither scandalous nor abstruse but of an innocence that almost qualifies it for juvenile readers. It consists of three episodes based on Author Steinbeck's youth. Central character is a healthy, shy, towheaded, 10-year-old farm boy named Jody Tiflin. Given a red pony colt by his father, coached in its training by the hired hand, Jody is in perpetual seventh heaven except when he is in school. A few days before the pony is ready...
...companion. A haymow discovery plus Calvinism plus an illegitimate child turn the McLeod household into one of the least cheerful places in the Middle West. Most exotic of the five novelettes is the somewhat scrambled A Cargo of Parrots, by a pseudonymous English writer 25 years resident in Africa. Central character of the book is a remarkable native servant named Ramazini, whose dying German bwana (master) instructs him to deliver a collection of parrots to London. Against the sadistic treatment of a tramp steamer's first officer, Ramazini opposes first his extraordinary dignity, finally a lethal iron bar. Loving...