Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South of Peiping two roughly parallel railroads run, one to central Hankow the other to Pukow and Nanking. Because divisions of Chiang Kai-shek's highly mechanized, German-trained personal army were driving north six weeks ago, threatening to cut the Japanese line between Peiping and the sea, the Japanese Navy was ordered to stage what is technically known as a diversion at Shanghai...
...previous visit to Moscow last February, I dined one night with members of the Foreign Office and a few journalists. . . . Paul Lapinsky, at that time foreign editor of the newspaper Izvestia, the official organ of the Central Executive...
...wavering line running in a southwesterly direction from Cape Gracias a Dios on the Caribbean to the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific divides the two Central American Republics of Honduras and Nicaragua. The exact position of this line has been the cause of dispute for many years. Under a treaty signed in 1894, the Government of Spain was called in to arbitrate. The decision awarded in 1906 was rejected by Nicaragua because of "irregularities in procedure." A conference in Washington in 1918 was equally fruitless...
...from San Francisco, a small, freckled, poker-faced, soft-spoken Tennessean named William Walker, 29 years old, sailed with 45 assorted killers, down-and-outers and adventurers to capture Lower California as the first step in privately annexing Mexico and Central...
...ruin you." After Vanderbilt had made good his promise. Walker still pig-headedly refused to talk business, thereby cutting off his one important source of outside help. His last and biggest mistake was to elect himself President of Nicaragua. He now faced the armies of all his Central American neighbor countries, brought U. S. and British battleships hurrying to blockade his ports against new recruits. A match for his Central American enemies, even when his man power had dropped to a few hundred, he did not try to fight off the U. S. naval commander who demanded his surrender...