Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beau-Strings. The curious title was not affixed by Mr. Munro, at least not in the first place. In London the play was called Storm and Miss Gee, the central part, was played by the Jean Cadell whose abilities are agreeably estimated in the previous review. The part is now played, perhaps some-what misplayed, by Estelle Winwood. Both as a play and in performance the piece seems only a runner-up to At Mrs. Beam...
Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, "War Lord of Central China," rumored ally of Chang Hsueh-liang in capturing Peking, did not enter the city last week. The original garrison, adherent to the "Christian" Super -Tuchun, Feng Yu-hsiang, continued in headlong flight to Kalgan, hotly pursued...
Publishers. The biggest, the central town criers' gathering, was that of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. They met in the big Waldorf ballroom and reporters stood at the door jotting down, together with the great names of U. S. newspaperdom, other publishing names variously distinguished: J. W. Green of the Buffalo Express, who claimed he had attended more A. N. P. A. conventions than any other man alive (the reporter failed to note the record number); Zell Hart Deming of the Warren, Ohio, Tribune-Chronicle, "only publisher in the U. S. who does her own fruitcanning"; the ample Frank Rostock...
Recent months, while the Van Sweringens were trying and failing to effect their Nickel Plate System as a competitor in the East to the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the B. & O., the country has been watching this man. He was known to control the Delaware & Hudson with its 30-odd affiliated companies in the East. In the Middle West he was chairman of the Kansas City Southern, boss of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (the "Katy") and of the St. Louis Southwestern (the "Cotton Belt"). Of the latter road Edwin Gould was nominally chairman, the last of the Goulds...
...Toltecs had in their early days been strongly influenced by the early Maya culture in Guatemala. The great expansion of the Toltec Empire included practically all of the non-Maya peoples of Central and Southern Mexico, and as far south as Nicaragua and Costa Rica...