Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret Chinese agreement with Russia would put a quietus on the Nationalist Government's none too successful campaign against Chinese Communists in the Central provinces, release thousands of well-equipped troops for use against Japan in the North. Even more important than military advantage to Russia would be the possibility of cutting into the rich Chinese markets now held by Japan and Britain. Reports of the military alliance were last week quickly followed by a rumor that the U. S. S. R. and China were dickering over a commercial agreement...
...connection with the U. S. Phoenix Insurance Co. is the equally important Vienna Phoenix Life Insurance Co., known throughout Central Europe as "Phönix-Wien." Founded in 1882, it established branches throughout the empire, grew prosperous. The break-up of the old Austrian empire did not seem to affect it. Phönix-Wien rode like a duck over the wild inflation of 1923. Less than a year ago Phönix-Wien boasted assets of nearly 750,000,000 schillings ($150,000,000), controlled 15 different companies and had absorbed two-thirds of the insurance companies in Austria...
...consider myself your prisoner. I have no forces at my disposal and I do not need them. You may take me in an airplane or before a firing squad. . . .' General Navarro replied, 'I request you to prepare to accompany me at 6:30 to the Central Airfield...
...that the Freshman applications for rooms in the Houses are safely deposited in the hands of the Central Committee, it is time for the class of '39 to consider what they intend to gain and contribute to the general success of the House Plan. The cross-section as interpreted at the present time has been unsuccessful. Although it is valuable for students of all types to intermingle, the regimentation of the plan has defeated its original purposes, by forcing a large number of students out of the Houses into "rabbit-warrens" on Mt. Auburn and Plympton Streets. Restrictions placed upon...
...itself, which was good enough for Alexander Hamilton and should be good enough for us. What have our weak, corrupt, immigration authorities to say about the presence in this country of Father Coughlin, the Canadian-born, the arch-alien, un-American Pied Piper, with his wicked song about a central bank? Soviet Russia has a central bank, and Josef Stalin cannot wait until similar Communistic chains are laid across the backs of free Americans...