Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With quaking Spanish Communists last week able to see from the housetops of Madrid the approaching armies of the Whites (see above), Joseph Stalin had not yet done anything to aid the Communist cause in Spain. Direct Madrid-Moscow radio communication had just been opened and the Central Executive Committee of the Spanish Communist Party flashed urgent appeals to the Dictator. Stalin's whereabouts have been secret since he was reported to have left Moscow "on vacation" with his entourage in an armored train, reputedly to suppress insurgence in his native Georgia. Last week, wherever Stalin was, the Spanish...
...dealing with the life of a steelworker, any medium except the cinema would inevitably have found Labor v. Capital a central problem. For Universal, the sole problem herein was how to substitute overalls for the soldiers' uniforms McLaglen has worn in his recent pictures. Adapted from a Liberty story, directed by John G. Blystone, The Magnificent Brute effects McLaglen's demobilization with a minimum of distinction, a fair share of entertainment. Most tedious noise: McLaglen's guffaw...
Among Dunbar tenants who awaited the disposition of these matters were Tap Dancer Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, Sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Esquire Cartoonist E. Simms Campbell, Admiral Peary's North Pole Companion Matthew Henson, Chief James Williams of Grand Central Station redcaps...
...whose biography of Grover Cleveland won him the Pulitzer Prize for 1932, offered a full-length portrait of the Secretary that clarified the disorder of Grant's regime, revealed aspects of U. S. political life of which few voters have been aware. Fish was an excellent choice as central figure for such a study. Unchangeable, incorruptible, with his prejudices, political views and limitations firmly fixed by the time he took office, he served as a standard of consistency against which the dishonesties and irresponsibilities of his colleagues could be measured. Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration...
...fomenter of revolution in the world, the most hated, praised and feared leader of the colonists, and who has since been supplanted in historic significance by men famed chiefly as his tools at the height of his own career. Last week this neglected U. S. hero was made the central figure of a biography that pictured him as a forerunner of the true type of modern revolutionist, an able, unscrupulous, single-minded man, skilled in intrigue and a master of the modern art of political propaganda...