Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentences than any other jurist in the world, left the court to cogitate with his three assistant judges for seven hours, returned to deliver the verdict: all 16 prisoners were to be shot "within 72 hours," subject to the remote possibility of an overriding decree of clemency by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. From Brussels, the Second (Socialist) International dispatched to the Third (Communist) International at Moscow a vigorous message protesting that the prisoners had not in fact been defended in court. This was de' nounced by the official Moscow party organ Pravda as "impertinent." With...
...protest the discharge of two old-time P.I. staffmen who had been active in the Guild, the typographical workers elaborately explained that they dared not risk their necks passing through the picket lines, stayed away also. Under Labor Boss Dave Beck, moving force of Seattle's Central Labor Council, a cordon of demonstrators from the American Federation of Teachers (see p. 35) and the Teamsters', Lumbermen's and Longshoremen's Unions tied the plant up tight. Publisher William Vaughn Tanner was thereupon obliged to ''suspend indefinitely" (TIME...
Last week the Seattle Guild's demand for the reinstatement of Lynch and Armstrong was refused. The Seattle Central Labor Council promptly announced that the Post-Intelligencer was "unfair to organized labor." The Guild ordered its membership out, claimed 40 newsmen from the Post-Intelligencer's staff of 68 answered the strike call. A picket line around the publishing plant was formed, aided by the redoubtable Teamsters', Loggers' and Longshoremen's unions. Careful to explain that they "were not on a sympathetic strike," the Post-Intelligencer's typographical men simply refused to pass through...
...girl athletes, related the sad case of his ablest sprinter, who qualified for the Olympics in record-breaking time, then decided to turn male. Said gloomy Coach Meredith: "I argued with her but lost the decision. She is now a male athlete. There are many cases like this in Central Europe...
...cannot similarly invade most Eastern States where laws forbid State-wide branch banking. To unit (one-bank) bankers who violently oppose him as a financial monopolist, Banker Giannini says: "Under a unified banking system it will be possible to have the equivalent of an up-to-date central clearing house for the nation . . . and the status of the nation's banking structure will be clear at all times." Last month, announcing that Bank of America N. T. & S. A. deposits had, in the year ending June 30, jumped $250,000,000 to a total...