Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Count Csaky waited until a few hours before news of the German-Russian Anti-Aggression Pact fell like a bomb on Europe's capitals. Then he said suavely what nationalistic Hungarians wanted to hear: "An independent and strong Hungary is an indispensable factor in the political balance of Central Europe. . . . This thousand-year-old nation has preferred, above all, in every age and under all circumstances, to be reliable and to keep its national honor. Neither in Germany nor Italy was anything asked or demanded or begged from the Hungarian Government. . . . Personally, I was so pleased in both countries...
...Europe, crisscrossed north and south as well as east and west by sworling mountain ranges, the theatres of war are limited with almost mathematical precision. Every great plain and basin in western and central Europe has been soaked in blood, every pass and gap and gateway has been powdered by the hobnails of marching men. Possession of the mountain bastions frequently determines just whose plains and basins are the site of bloodletting...
...into its midst. Director Gregory La Cava, who tried it with a butler in My Man Godfrey (1937), this time does it in distaff with a working girl. When rich Mr. Borden (Walter Connolly) is stood up by his wife and family on his birthday, he wanders gloomily into Central Park, finds himself talking about the seals to pretty young Mary Grey (Ginger Rogers). Discovering by accident that Mary makes his enameled wife (Verree Teasdale) pay attention to him for the first time in years, Mr. Borden rightly concludes that her attention will be completely captured if Mary moves into...
...Clarence Alonzo Mills of the University of Cincinnati believes that sun spots cause economic depressions. He also believes that the biggest cause of disease in the U. S. is not poverty, urban life, or plain ignorance, but "cold polar waves traveling down the central trough of the continent." Last week in a book-full of statistics, weather maps and medical long shots, Dr. Mills published his latest ideas on the ill winds of North America...
Tibet is a windswept highland where the chief drink is buttered tea, the chief fuel is yak dung, and a stuck-out tongue is a friendly greeting. Faith of the 3,000,000 Tibetans-and of other millions throughout the fastnesses of Central Asia-is Lamaism, a theocratic form of Buddhism. Lamaists believe in numerous divine incarnations, chief of them the Dalai Lama, "Buddha of Mercy," who is not only temporal ruler of Tibet but a god. Since the death of Ngawang Lopsang Toupden Gyatso in 1933, Tibet has been ruled by a council of lamas. Last month...