Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles municipal candidates run without party labels, but everybody knew that Mayor Shaw is a nominal Republican and that Candidate Ford is currently Chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee, although he made an unsuccessful race for Congress as a Republican in 1932. Because 53-year-old Candidate Ford, an oldtime newshawk, was identified as a liberal and Mayor Shaw, a former grocery salesman, was known as a tried and true conservative, the outcome was a foregone conclusion. In Los Angeles, no one damned as a liberal can count on the all-powerful support of the Red-hating Chamber...
...treason, sabotage and fomenting world revolution hurled against absent Leon Trotsky during the last mass treason trial in Soviet Russia. Because he felt that the committee of professional liberals from the U. S. heading the trial was unduly influenced in Trotsky's favor, Author Carleton Beals, authority on Central America, resigned in disgust. By last week the committee had proved nothing at all, but to a packed house Professor Dewey was able...
...Marxists," France and Russia, were tackled next. Germany's ambition is to see a solid Fascist wedge driven between the two, to dominate central Europe as she did before the War-with this difference. Before the War, Germany was the central figure of Mittel-Europa, scheming for a pan-Germany from the Baltic to the Persian Gulf. Then Italy was a wavering German satellite. Now she is the virtual Boss of central Europe and pan-Germany must wait upon Italy's permission even to penetrate the Danube basin economically. To sell their new solidarity to Britain and France...
...honor of George VI's Coronation, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt took spade in hand, planted two English hawthorns in the Shakespeare Garden of Manhattan's Central Park. Told that a similar spade had once been used to plant a tree there in honor of Edward VIII, the President's mother murmured: "The poor boy. He got into bad hands, didn't he? He was a naughty...
...season, later announced his permanent retirement. He continued to live at matador pace, scattering money like crumbs to many a hungry bird. His mistress, Marilena, was Ricardo's greatest expense and biggest trouble. When she saw there was a bottom to his purse she used all her Central American wiles to get him back into the arena. Ricardo's nerve was gone, so was his stamina; he hated the idea of fighting any more bulls. But finally he gave in, signed a contract for two fights. The first, in the provinces, was near disastrous. The second...