Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eager to do so, but Franklin Roosevelt had wanted to give Ohio's Governor Davey a chance to bring peace locally, as Michigan's Murphy had done in the motor strikes. Meantime, while Governor Martin Davey tried and failed, Franklin Roosevelt personally and conversationally arbitrated the central issue of the steel war, unmistakably indicating the course that any mediation by his representatives would take. This was just one step short of the personal Presidential intervention which John Lewis wanted...
...Socialist Léon Blum formed his Popular Front Government (TIME, June 15, 1936), scared money was in flight from France last week, rushing to other havens at such alarming pace that the Bank of France, striving to tempt its return, had to jack up the already high Paris central bank discount rate of 4% to the "panic rate" of 6%. The Blum Cabinet for the third time in nine months was desperately short of cash. First time this happened (TIME, Oct. 5), Finance Minister Vincent Auriol devalued the franc by 40%, carried on with the "profits" of this operation...
...those several instances of State laws which prohibit the teaching of evolution. It was traditional religion that thus invoked the heavy hand of legislation. Elsewhere, without invoking the law but with its extended and varied influence, traditional religion is now effecting a widespread repression of the teaching of this central principle of biology in our public schools. It sometimes forces the resignation of able zoologists even from college positions; and in high schools and late primary grades there are probably today few places where straightforward teaching of the unmitigated evolution principle can be done except at the peril...
...more like a fox hunter than a painter but betrays his ancestry by a fondness for good food and French poodles. As an additional distinction he is a member of the only firm of mural painters in the U. S.: Bouché, Saalburg & Henry. However, Partners Allen Saalburg (Central Park's Tavern on the Green) and Everett Henry (Ford Building, San Diego Fair) had no part in this prize-winning mural...
...central panel, fairly near the centre," said Artist Bouché, "are three deer and they are just grazing and standing around. I just painted them because they are so sweet." The right and left panels, which must stand alone since the central section will often be covered by a cinema screen, show an Indian and a surveyor gazing at the landscape and cowboys rounding up buffalo...