Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Confederation of Mexican Workers). Only a few months ago in Manhattan, Laborite Lombardo had professed himself certain that the Government of which his 1,000,000 workers are a keystone would never dream of bartering its oil with dictatorships. However, none of the delegates from the 13 Central and South American States represented* rose to embarrass Host Lombardo on this point nor did any of the big three "fraternal delegates" present: French Trade Union Tsar Léon Jouhaux, whose dues-paying followers number 5,000,000; the Minister of Justice of Leftist Spain, famed Ramón Gonz...
...Tropic of Capricorn runs through the Chaco, the Tropic of Cancer just north of Cuba. The area between the Tropics includes Central America, the jungles of the Amazon, the West Indies, the least habitable parts of Africa, the East Indies and the deserts of northern Australia...
...tightening of the Hearst chain (see below) last week brought observers to the conclusion that U. S. chain journalism had passed its zenith. When stronger papers are no longer able to absorb the losses of the weaker papers, the essential strength of a chain is lost. While still under central management, the motto of chains has become: every paper for itself...
...outside the State, were born. His findings: parents from the northern States of the U. S. produced more bright children than dull ones; the southern States more dull children than bright; greatest preponderance of bright children was in the far West; biggest proportion of stupid ones in the South Central States (Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama. Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas). Dr. Blair, whose doctor's thesis reporting his investigation was sponsored by Columbia University's Teachers College, offered no explanation...
...Central character of the book is a mournful defrocked priest, who, as a result of his many beatings, humiliations, neuroses, pathetic romanticizing, venereal disease and terror, gradually reaches a mental state indistinguishable from his delirium tremens when drunk. The crew use him as a butt, let up on him slightly when he is half dead. Once they find a substitute outlet in a fantastic rat-hunt-the high point of Sandemose's grotesque humor...