Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offend families, not to advertise Esquire, but to illustrate an exceptional demonstration of Latin pride TIME reported the official furor in Cuba over Esquire's article belittling the amorous abilities of Central and South Americans...
...Kashmir, Rajputana Agency and the Punjab States Agency; and scholarly, muscular Arthur Cunningham Lothian of the Political Department of the Government of India who must obtain the signature of "The Richest Man in the World" in Hyderabad, as well as those of the native rulers of Mysore Travancore, Cochin, Central India and the Eastern States Agencies...
...trying to be to them have indeed a chance for Democracy, though it may be their last. Either a Fascist or a Soviet Dictatorship-and it is not impossible, however unlikely, that one might arise-would swiftly reduce India to the status of Ethiopia or one of the Central Asian so-called "Soviet Republics" now exploited from Moscow and made to jump at the commands of Stalin. Last week, with the initial stage of Provincial Autonomy set to click into action in 1937, the provisional date for full coming into effect of the Indian-Federation was set forward from...
...studio in New York for years. One evening in 1915 Sculptor Diederich gave a farewell party before moving to another studio. About the third round of drinks the problem of the greyhounds and what to do with them seemed very acute. Somebody suddenly remembered that there was in Central Park a vacant pedestal. With great sweating and grunting the entire party loaded the greyhounds into a taxi and presented them informally to the city. Police for some reason found this highly irregular, forced Sculptor Diederich to move his greyhounds to the arsenal...
...addition to this surprise package of sacred literature, the profane reading of members was supplied with a heavy, repetitious, 499-page regional novel revolving around the dwellers of the Mississippi Delta country south of New Orleans. With a central character named Sister Kalavich, a proud, self-possessed girl who bore an illegitimate son, defied her neighbors, lived alone and achieved a life of harmony with nature, Green Margins contains almost all the essentials of a good novel except a narrative to hold it together or a clearly-defined purpose that would give its episodes significance. Pursued by hearty, headstrong Mitch...