Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Career: Youngest of a farmer's brood of eight, George McGill was moved from Iowa to Kansas at the age of 4, hoed and harvested on his father's farm until he left to work his way through Central Normal College at Great Bend, Kans. and to study...
...Christian missionary doctors are among the few Western observers in really close touch with China's people, and in Manhattan arrived last week Dr. Walter H. Judd. fresh from work in Japanese-conquered territory, and Dr. Robert McClure who has been Director of the International Red Cross in Central China. They agreed that Japan "does not have the ghost of a chance to win the war," since what they have seen convinces them that the Japanese Army of Occupation, sniped at and harassed day & night by Chinese guerrillas, is "slowly bleeding to death." As an example, the missionary doctors...
Formerly the gloomy, box-shaped, 283-year-old Royal Palace in Amsterdam was without electric lights, central heating and had but two bathtubs, both without running water. Here, as required by the Constitution. Her Majesty, Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands. Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg, has grudgingly spent two weeks each year. Recently, however, the Palace has been completely renovated, modernized. Comfortable inside last week were Her Majesty, Crown Princess Juliana & husband, Prince Bernhard, & seven-month-old daughter, Princess Beatrix Wilhelmina...
Outside the Palace in the tidy, central square, The Dam, thousands of broadfaced Dutchmen, big-bosomed matrons and holiday-garbed children, faces scrubbed red as Edam cheeses, milled about shouting the famed cheer for the House of Orange: "Orange Boven" ("Orange Up!"). Reason for the "cheers was that their beloved Queen last week observed two anniversaries: her 58th birthday and the completion of her 40th year on the throne. Technically. Wilhelmina, Europe's longest-reigning sovereign,* became Queen 48 years ago on the death of her father, dissolute King Willem Ill, but Queen Mother Emma served as Regent until...
Year ago Mayor LaGuardia launched a new attack on Newark's monopoly-enlargement of the old North Beach Airport on Flushing Bay in Queens (20 minutes by car from Manhattan's Grand Central Station) into the most pretentious land and seaplane base in the world (TIME, Sept. 20). At brisk Newark renovation also began...