Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lieutenant in Troop B of the Massachusetts Guard; as a member of the latter organization he was on duty in the autumn of 1919 during the police strike in Boston. On October 22, 1918, he enlisted as a private in the Army and was detailed to the Field Artillery Central Officers' Training School at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. He was discharged on November...
From the mountainous central wilds of Neuva Segovia, Nicaragua, the insurgent General Augusto Sandino hurled defiance, last week, at the U. S. Marines who are seeking to exterminate his forces (see below). In a proclamation smuggled to Mexico City and there released General Sandino cries...
...business. Newspapermen, often harried frantic in attempts to get the office or the information centre of a story close to edition time, were quick to pick up last week a brief story about Harry Kaufman, leading Elk. Mr. Kaufman, lacking a nickel, became infuriated because he could not attract central's attention from a Manhattan pay station booth. He wrenched off the mouthpiece; twisted the receiver hook; all but tore the box from the wall...
...such it undoubtedly became in his own particular field of modern international relations. Master of many languages and acquainted with the public men of many countries, he was particularly at home in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, the Near and Far East, and did much to develop the scholarly study of these regions in American Universities. After he gave up the conduct of History 1 in 1905, his teaching and writing centered more and more about recent diplomatic history. To undergraduates he brought a sense of fresh contact with the affairs of the wider world, while among graduate...
...positions which he has so ably held in the American legations in St. Petersburg and Vlenna and later in Chili, Sweden, and Northern Russia and especially in Paris during the peace Conference when he served as the principal representative of the American delegation to survey and report conditions in Central Europe and the Balkans, all contributed to his immense store of practical experience. The friendly compacts which he had reestablished with statesmen in foreign countries kept him intimately in touch with the world-wide movements. We have all lost a great teacher, and a friend who because of the nobility...