Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wheelhorse. Alben Barkley is a dependable, likable, old-dog sort of man whom no one, ten years ago, would have picked as a central character in the national scene. Today, Franklin Roosevelt wants young blood in the Judiciary but not, in this case, in the Senate. More than anything he wants "yes" men in the Senate, not "yes but -" men. In the Majority Leader, a "yes" man is essential. Where would any Administration's steamroller go if the engineer turned and argued about his orders? For this reason Franklin Roosevelt wrote as he did last summer to "Dear Alben...
...life, but none of the others-Trotsky, Stalin, Zinoviev. the Russian Revolutionist Georgy Plekhanov, Karl Radek-renounced his beliefs so completely. Nor did Angelica work so closely with the others as with Mussolini in the days when the future dictator was editor of the Italian Socialist Party's central newspaper. Her picture of him- brooding, explosive, egocentric, enigmatic, alternately violent and timid-is the most interesting part of My Life as a Rebel, which is a long (324 pages) record of defeats and betrayals, written with a quiet stoicism unique in angry revolutionary literature...
...these products should be conserved for export." In a fervent, patriotic convention at Hankow, Chinese political leaders of all factions again pledged unanimous loyalty to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. This game but losing commander prepared for the probable retreat of the Chinese Government from Hankow, the great central "Chicago of China" to which they withdrew after the fall of Nanking...
...quarrel of any kind or wait for the Labor Board to decide what the wages shall be ... the decision must be theirs [the employes']. . . ." Simultaneously Judge Howe reversed his earlier stand, allowed creditors to sue. The ink was scarcely dry on his ruling when three banks (Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co., United States Trust Co. of New York, Old Colony Trust Co.) filed foreclosures on mortgages involving $9,250,000. This week Judge Howe is meeting with "all persons" interested to decide whether to abandon the line...
Gales, a businesslike American in the middle of a Central American jungle looking for alligators, came upon a little Indian village by the side of a river. People said that he had once been interrupted when he was just on the point of raising an Indian from the dead, which gave him a useful reputation. He got to know the Indians in the village: the master of a pump station which pumped water through the jungle to a railroad depot; the pump master's wife, an aristocrat because she owned pots and pans; a young, handsome Indian named Perez...