Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trenches in France. When the parade started, 1,000,000 New Yorkers were lined up along the sidewalks to watch it. Shops along Fifth Avenue, closed for the day, had boarded up their plate-glass show windows. Traffic for blocks on both sides of the city's central artery was ordered to detour. Some pedestrians who wanted to cross town had to hang to mail trucks...
...Schacht is to have no further government role he is out presumably not only as Economics Minister but also as President of the Reichsbank, the post in which he won fame as "the ablest central banker in Europe." These many years Dr. Schacht has stood off Germany's creditors with phenomenal adroitness; he created and managed the trickiest set of currencies the world has ever seen, the various varieties of German marks; and more recently he has sewed up banks, governments and firms in many countries of the world in barter deals by which Germany, since she could...
...compiled chaotic books such as Wild Talents, The Book of the Damned, Lo! New Lands. Charles Fort demanded that science explain why statues shed blood, why frogs and periwinkles fall to earth in rainstorms, why eels appear in landlocked water. What about the swan which mysteriously appeared in Central Park after the celebrated Dorothy Arnold mysteriously disappeared? What about the Chippewa Indian who prayed for food for his child, promptly drew milk from his breast...
...Spring of 1937 the Student Council issued another report in which it asks that "central administration be effected as soon as possible" and that there be paid managers in each House. These two features in particular are expected to keep defaults at a minimum and to interest a greater number of students in House sports. This new plan is described under II. The organization which was in force during the past year is described under...
...Bonnet Government has had as little success as the Blum Cabinet in bolstering France's perennial financial position-clearly indicated last week by an inflationary Bank of France statement showing: 1) the highest note circulation in French history and 2) that the Government had once more dipped into central bank reserves...