Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was no rebellion by fanatical diehards. Its leaders were some of the army's most respected officers, flanked by some of the nation's most respected politicians. From their mountain headquarters in the Padang Highlands of Central Sumatra the voice of the rebels sounded calm and collected, and urged compromise. All the rebels asked was that Indonesia's President 1) behave himself constitutionally, 2) abandon his partnership with the Communist Party...
...effect, Sukarno spent the Outer Islands' earnings on Java. In early 1955 Colonels Sumual and Warouw in the Celebes began shipping out copra and collecting their own taxes on the trade. Instead of sending the revenue to Djakarta, they used the money for local schools and roads. In Central Sumatra veteran Colonel Ahmad Husein followed their lead, took over the regional administration, soon was exporting rubber to Singapore. Tall, efficient Colonel Simbolon in North Sumatra and scholarly Colonel Barlian in South Sumatra also went into the business of army-managed barter and invested the profits in schools, roads, barracks...
During his long coverage of politics, Jackson has been a candidate for office in seven primary and four general elections (and lost only three primaries), served six years each as a state senator and a Democratic central committeeman. He has bagged appointive plums ranging from chairmanship of Ohio's Highway Construction Council (at $50 a day) to membership on the Strip Mine Commission. While drawing $8,000 a year from his Vindicator job, nimble Newsman Jackson since last May has helped make ends meet by working four days a week as an $8,400-a-year member of Ohio...
Following this, the visitors passed to Lowell House, where a central kitchen meal and a closed circuit broadcast awaited them. With microphone arranging by President Pusey and Laurence O. Pratt '26, public relations chairman, White, professors Myron P. Gilmore and Edward Purcell, and Barbara Ward spoke on the material and educational aspects of the Program...
Emergency. In Indianapolis, a boy walked into the children's division of the Central Library, yelled at Librarian Elizabeth Simmons: "Hey woman, get me a book on manners...