Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hutchins aims to resurrect the American university from the depths of its degradation and confusion. He points out that the objective of education should be to prepare the student for intelligent action. With this as his central theme he clarifies the proper function of a university in the scheme of a man's whole education. A university is equipped only to pursue the fundamental truths and no more--to attempt anything else is to cripple its prime purpose. Taking wisdom as the result of both intellectual training and experience, Dr. Hutchins insists, contrary to the existing curricula of most colleges...
...Catholic accountant named James Everett Butler as comptroller. In February the college treasurer, Brother Josephus, informed Comptroller Butler that supervision of athletic accounts was not included in the agreement. When the Brothers persistently refused to discuss their football business, the committee last week asked bondholders permission to have the Central Bank of Oakland declare the bonds in default, institute foreclosure proceedings...
...Alleghenies. Year later the company was reorganized as Pennsylvania Airlines. In 1934 it lost its mail contract in Postmaster General Farley's celebrated blanket cancellation. Complying with changed requirements, it extended its lines to Detroit, sought a new contract, but was underbid by a brand-new concern named Central Airlines which began flying the same route. Pennsylvania then reorganized as Pennsylvania Airlines & Transport Co. and acquired Kohler Aviation Corp., which had pioneered the airway from Detroit to Milwaukee...
Since then, the Penn and Central lines have been bitter rivals. Central's chief asset was the mail contract from Detroit to Washington, Pennsylvania's the longer route with a mail contract between Detroit and Milwaukee. Central plumped for trimotored Stinsons, Pennsylvania for twin-motored Boeings. The battle involved rate cuts, protests to the Post Office and the I. C. C. Neither side won an advantage. Both thrived. In 1935 Pennsylvania's passenger traffic was 200% better than in 1934. This year the gain has been nearly as great. Central did equally well; August...
...awed observations in Kit Brandon. Last week a 29-year-old novelist made a bold attempt to correct this omission with an extraordinary, 415-page work of fiction in which the automobile, with its moving parts, time payments and advantages as a theatre for youthful lovemaking, served as the central figure. Not exactly a novel, Clutch and Differential is by George Weller, whose first book, Not to Eat, Not for Love, published three years ago, was a witty college story laid in his alma mater, Harvard. The elusive theme of his new work is taken from an automobile sales circular...