Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...openly repudiated in Congress, leaving the laborers to wonder where their next few dollars are coming from. Cash must be spent on a certain day or not at all. Robert Moses must tear down the Casino by June thirtieth, or leave it forever a blight on the landscape of Central Park...
Paroled from the North Carolina State Penitentiary after serving 23 months of a six-to-ten year sentence for his part in the $17,000,000 failure of the Asheville Central Bank & Trust Co. in 1930 was Colonel Luke Lea, 57, onetime (1911-17) U. S. Senator, long a potent Tennessee publisher & politician. With Son Luke Lea Jr., who spent 79 days in jail after a similar conviction, he scurried off to Nashville by automobile...
That this collection of athletic freaks should be employed by a central Kansas oil concern in a town of 5,000 and that their basketball ramblings should be paid for by the company is less mysterious than it seems. Like Universal Pictures' five, and thousands of similar groups in the U. S., they are a company promotion scheme. The idea came to the Globe Oil's sales manager in 1934, from Gene Johnson who had spent half a dozen years coaching minor college and commercial teams in the Midwest. He guaranteed a winning combination. Last week, Coach Johnson...
...Another notable bond offering last week was a $40,000,000 issue of New York Central bonds, proceeds of which, together with $22,900,000 of short-term notes, will be used to fund Central's colossal bank loans (TIME...
...Boston's North and South Railroad Stations, in Manhattan's Grand Central Station, commuters and loafers had paused to listen to Federal band music. Pittsburgh had a 22-piece gypsy orchestra, Chicago a Hungarian ensemble, San Antonio and Tucson tipica orchestras. Dr. John J. Becker had his Horn Concerto played in Boston, Bendetson Netzorg his The Bhalahu in Detroit. WPA musicians will take part this spring in a series of Manhattan concerts showing the history of U. S. music, in a Virginia State Music Festival, in a New Jersey Beethoven Cycle, in a May festival in St. Paul...