Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold (subject to Congress' approval) to establish a central reserve bank and a currency tied to the dollar, to protect importers & exporters from exchange fluctuations...
...only change in the blanks this year is the addition of a question asking the candidate whether he wishes to be admitted to another House provided he is unsuccessful in his first two choices, thus giving him an opportunity to be considered when the Central Committee and Masters meet to go over the situation before the final assignment...
Although lacking the militant leadership afforded them Sunday night by officers of the Cambridge Central Labor Board, the workers were in a belligerent mood, requiring all of Stefani's persuasive powers to obtain the final vote authorizing him to continue negotiations for 36 hours
...Principality of Liechtenstein, a five-by-twelve-mile independent State in the central Alps between Austria and Switzerland, is dogged but slow. Back in 1866, when Liechtenstein decided to join Austria and go to war against Prussia, its Army...
...110th Street, Manhattan's sveltly starched Fifth Avenue passes the extreme northeast tip of Central Park, plunges into a new world-the teeming, Spanish-speaking slums, or barrio, of Lower Harlem. Mainly inhabited by Puerto Ricans, with a peppering of Cubans, Spaniards, Filipinos, Mexicans, it is one of the poorest, noisiest, brightest, muskiest, most musical and least written-about foreign quarters in Manhattan...