Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from putting "Mother's Day" on his special 3? Whistler's Mother stamp, which she said was just another racket. Last week on Mother's Day she contented herself with denouncing a Manhattan "Mother's Peace Day" parade and a "Parents' Day" meeting in Central Park. (One of her current slogans is "Don't Kick Mother out of Mother's Day.") Then she dedicated an eternal light to the Mothers of America and went to a service in her honor at the Church of the Saviour...
SHANGHAI--Reinforced Japanese armies battered Chinese lines today along an irregular front of more than 1500 miles from Ningpo, south of Shanghai, to Suchow-Pu, in east central China, and Puchow-Fu, in southwest Shansi Province. The full length of the vital Lung-Hai railway, defending Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's Provisional capital in Hankow, still remained in Chinese hands, however...
...talk lately about political refugees from Central Europe and whether or not the United States ought to admit them tends to hide the fact there are already many persons in this country who were forced to leave Germany and Italy. Einstein, Thomas Mann, and Breuning are well-known refugees. A group of such scholars has set up in New York the New School of Social Research, which well-established institution has gone so far as to publish its own quarterly magazine and issue as its first supplement the pamphlet on Taxation. Recommended by the April Fortune as essential reading...
...effort to remedy the present unbridled manner of running House dances, House Masters are this spring fostering meetings of House faculty and undergraduate representatives to discuss the possibility of a central authoritative body to supervise dance arrangements...
...have viewed with mixed feelings of satisfaction and guilt the preparations for the removal of the verses at the head of the central steps in Widener Library--satisfaction that they were to be replaced at last, guilt that I'had taken no part in a crusade for their removal...