Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was academic, Dr. Barnes's next move was not. When the congregation of Central North Broad Church announced it would follow Dr. Machen, Central North Broad was promptly locked up. Moderator Barnes declared its pulpit vacant, announced he would furnish a supply pastor on Sunday, ruled that, according to a U. S. Supreme Court decision, the church belonged not to the congregation but to the General Assembly. To those edicts the Machenites bowed. On Sunday 700 of Central North Broad's members worshipped with their pastor in Lu Lu Temple...
After years of complaints from residents of Mt. Kisco, Katonah and Bedford Hills, N. Y., President Frederick Ely Williamson of New York Central Railroad, which runs through these swank suburban towns, last week visited them, listened carefully, agreed to put whistles on his trains which will emit a soothing "Beep" instead of a shrill "Toot...
...organization that watches personal credit is the National Retail Credit Association, which will hold its annual convention this week in Omaha. Unlike NACM, NRCA has no central credit exchange. But records of no less than 60,000,000 U. S. chargers are on file with local credit bureaus in more than 1,000 cities. The Credit Bureau of Greater New York has 3,000,000 alone. These local credit bureaus are, in the main, non-profit-making organizations owned by their members, mostly stores, and any charge account not paid in 120 days must be reported. Delinquencies are entered...
...even get time to get a drink of water any more," complained a clerk in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station information booth. Said a ticket agent in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal: "You see a lot of new faces now, and the trains are fuller...
...Milwaukee; Burlington; Chicago & North Western; Rock Island; Great Northern; Illinois Central; Soo Line. Chicago Great Western has since dropped...