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Word: centralization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last fortnight rain poured on the U. S. from Arkansas to Pennsylvania. In Missouri and Illinois it fell two inches at a time. On southern Ohio half a foot was dumped in 48 hours. Up, up, up last week rose the long, wide rivers of the Ohio and central Mississippi systems, the brown, frothy water creeping up the banks, lipping up the sides of the levees, spilling over the top and then surging and thundering into the river towns, killing 58 people, routing 550,000 from their homes, destroying millions of dollars worth of property in an area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hell & High Water | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...views, peremptorily challenged everyone who confessed to the slightest prejudice against unions or their activities. Time & again Prosecutor Dewey leaped up to protest that no union was on trial. At week's end 500 A. F. of L. unionists rallied to a meeting of the city's Central Trades and Labor Council, denounced Prosecutor Dewey as "Union Buster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Fight Against Fear | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...Corso Umberto Primo or Street of Humbert I is Rome's "Central Street," ends at Il Duce's office, contains the best shops, better-than-Broadway hotels, adjoins theatres and would adjoin "hotspots" except that Il Duce has drastically cooled all these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: On the Corso | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...Reform Judaism, a 63-year-old modernizing and "Americanizing" movement to which some 1,000,000 U. S. Jews adhere, there exist two mouthpieces neither of which claims to be more authoritative than the other: the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Year and a half ago the Rabbis surprisingly reversed one "Americanizing" principle of Reform, by withdrawing old objections to Zionism (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reform Unreformed? | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

Every state in the Union is represented in the American total and a majority of Central and South American countries as well. Massachusetts and New York provide more than half the student body with Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Connecticut, and California together adding almost another quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unusual Countries Furnish Record-Breaking Numbers Of Foreign Born Students | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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