Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important Shantung factor the arrival of so many Nanking troops in the province that it was doubtful last week whether Han remained sufficiently master of his province so that he could choose whether to sell out. The Nanking troops had not come fresh and forward into Shantung from Central China but were retreating into it last week from the North, badly disorganized by the Japanese punishment they have taken. At latest dispatches Nippon's advancing war machine had crossed the border into Shantung, and War Lord Han was racked by a dilemma in which he stood to lose...
...Nanking. Japanese contempt for noncombatant lives and humanitarian institutions, such as hospitals, was the outstanding feature of the bombing raids of the last weekend. Ninety-five Japanese planes made deliberate attempts in two successive raids to raze the 500-bed Central Rockefeller Hospital, although the Japanese claim this was occupied by the military...
...Sept. 27). Masked by the eruption of news from Berlin last week, there met in Paris quietly a conference of Italian, French and British naval experts-with Russia pointedly excluded. According to Paris dispatches, Britain and France were now ready to concede to Italy that she should police the central Mediterranean straits through which Soviet ships plying to Leftist Spain must pass-whereas previously the decision of the Nyon Conference was that Italy should keep "pirates" out of only the narrow sea adjacent to herself...
Vanderbilt then dominated the swift rising New York Central. His chief rival was the Pennsylvania, but both railroads kept to their own backyards until a scandalously promoted third line, the West Shore, began paralleling Vanderbilt's tracks along the west bank of the Hudson to the Port of New York. Angry clear through he decided that if the Central was to suffer from competition close to home, so was the Pennsylvania. Acquiring the "South Penn" charter, Vanderbilt declared a railroad war, sent 300 engineers and thousands of laborers trooping into the rugged, coal-bearing Alleghenies, with orders to build...
...transpired that the Pennsylvania, the New York Central and the Baltimore & Ohio have laid off some 20,000 men since Sept...