Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However. TIME was technically right, too, when it said that no wheel had ever rolled between North and South America. In impassable Central America Barone's journey was broken by three water hauls, the longest of which (210 miles) was from Colombia to Panama...
...Paris the famed pro-League and pro-Blum French Correspondent Mme Genevieve Tabouis winced in anguish: "The Central European Powers are consolidated again, with Kaiser Wilhelm II and Kaiser Franz Josef replaced by Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini! Austria is lost to France and Great Britain...
From the standpoint of Benito Mussolini, however, the secret Pact of Berchtesgaden served potent notice upon Europe- by the mere fact that it had been made- of an approach to each other of the two most powerful men in Central Europe today, Hitler and Mussolini. It was notice to Britain, France and the League of Nations that Italy's conquest of Ethiopia must receive official diplomatic recognition; that the "war guilt" under which Germans and Italians chafe must be erased in tribute to their "honor"; and that other wishes of these dictators must be granted-or else...
Meanwhile 27 U. S. bombing planes, newly purchased by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, were kept thundering over Nanking, his capital, to impress last week's arriving delegates to the so-called Chinese Parliament or Central Executive Committee. This gathering's name, copied from that of the ruling body in Moscow, recalls the days when Generalissimo Chiang fought with the assistance of Communist subsidies. Today Nanking is a modern Capitalist capital and Chiang's bureaucrats keep fit with daily calisthenics dictated by his New Life Movement, appear nattily efficient and most different from the opium-soaked Chinese often...
Died. S. (for Samuel) Parkes Cadman, 71, radiopreacher, pastor of Brooklyn's Central Congregational Church, onetime (1924-28) president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, onetime (1934-36) honorary Congregational moderator; of a ruptured appendix; in Plattsburg...