Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situation. For its first two years the House Plan functioned perfectly as no attempt was made to regulate the placement of men against their wishes. When some of the Houses became "social deserts", as Time expressed it, however, their masters, in cooperation with the College authorities, arranged for a central cross Section Committee to regulate room assignments. The aims of this committee, as its name implies, have been to make each house representative of the college as a whole, and thereby to establish a standard of social equality among the houses. The obvious result of this hit-or-miss plan...
Around the central theme of mistaken identities at a gay house party much merriment develops as the characters become more and more involved. Lightening the tension are such numbers as "Play Some Music" which is, in the words of the directors, "a cavalcade of jazz summarizing all types of songs and musical instruments in pantomime with orchestral accompaniment...
...Stock Yards and the Chicago Board of Trade, however, stuck to Central Time because their spheres of business interest lay in that zone. The Chicago Federation of Labor, claiming that under "fast" time its members would have to grope their way to work in total darkness all winter, set out to get 500,000 names on a petition to have the time question put to referendum. And the railroads, whose 13,000 Chicago schedules had been thrown askew, awaited the outcome of an Interstate Commerce Commission investigation to determine on what time basis the carriers should operate...
...really knew last week what the effect of the new rates will be. In general, the railroads welcomed the reduction. Only the New York, New Haven & Hartford, Pennsylvania and New York Central actively opposed it. Greyhound Corp. stock dropped six points. Almost everywhere present bus rates will still be lower than the new rail rates...
...Earl Brown, a porter in Grand Central, has written in Letters, biweekly magazine, how he once tried to extort "hush money" from Mr. Sachs on "Sugar Hill," the Vanderbilt Avenue taxicab entrance...