Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, addressing the Tenth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers (Communist) Party in Warsaw, Gomulka spoke in the tones of a man sorely beset. The Polish party, he admitted, "has partly dissolved itself into a nonparty mass," is riddled with disorientation and confusion." Said he, "It is high time to put an end to this." The first step: purge of half the party's 1,300,000 members, which would leave Poland's core of Communists the smallest proportionately in Eastern Europe...
...Central Bank, converted by Perón into a tool for direct control of the economy, reverted by an Aramburu decree to its normal function of regulating credit; deposits of private banks, taken over in 1946 by the Central Bank, will be returned...
...rage. Said the general: "People of Guatemala! If they give it to the Italian [Italian-descended Ortiz], we shall march!" That evening a temporary coalition of Ydigoras' rightists and non-Communist leftists, needled by a few Reds, and all united only in opposition to the M.D.N., marched into Central Park in downtown , Guatemala City, brushed aside the police and set off the first riot...
...From the beginning," says Thurber, "Ross cherished his dream of a Central Desk at which an infallible omniscience would sit, a dedicated genius, out of Technology by Mysticism, effortlessly controlling and coordinating editorial personnel, contributors, office boys, cranks and other visitors, manuscripts, proofs, cartoons, captions, covers, fiction, poetry and facts, and bringing forth each Thursday a magazine at once funny, journalistically sound, and flawless. He had persuaded himself that I might be just the wonder man he was looking...
Already, according to reports reaching Belgrade, he has been expelled from all his positions of power--from the top-level party Presidium, the party Central Committee and the Defense Ministry...