Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temporary operating headquarters of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government since the fall of Nanking five months ago, would not complete the process of dismembering China but would leave the Chinese only a fraction of what was once their nation. In the Yangtze Valley, main trade stem of central China, industrial Hankow is second only to Shanghai. Into Hankow daily roll trainloads of supplies, munitions from China's New Orleans (Canton), planeloads and motorcades of vital arms and materials from Russia through Sovietized Outer Mongolia (China's Pacific Northwest...
Some 200,000 of China's central army's best-equipped troops backed slowly westward along the railway all week, allowing Lanfeng and Kaifeng to fall, finally holed up in Chengchow, and at week's end Japanese bombers hammered at the city. Japanese shock troops pressed at its sides. Capture of Chengchow would enable the Japanese to right-angle down 300 miles of railway to Hankow. Only serious obstacle in their path will be the Chinese defense fortifications in the southern Honan mountains near Sinyang. Meanwhile, two Japanese forces pushing from the Nanking area to Hankow...
...statement said: "The Union believes that the central issue--that two promising academic careers have, in effect, been terminated--has not been squarely met. The Union therefore emphatically supports the recommendation of the Committee...
Melvin Fields, 18, of Muncie; Central Senior High School...
Balls rained through the infield. Third baseman Grondahl played like a croquet wicket. Shortstop Johns ran back and forth like the Grand Central shuttle. First baseman Lupien alternately lay on his stomach and ran to the fence behind him in effort to corral a throw for the final...