Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of his policy to strengthen U. S. diplomacy in Central and South America, President Hoover made a seven-way shuffle of ministerial posts last week. Three "career" ministers were promoted to better posts: Evan E. Young from the Dominican Republic to Bolivia, Roy Tasco Davis from Costa Rica to Panama, Hans Frederick Arthur Schoenfeld from Bulgaria to Costa Rica. Four career secretaries were advanced to their first full envoyships when Julius Garecke Lay was named Minister to Honduras, Matthew Elting Hanna to Nicaragua, Post Wheeler to Paraguay, Charles Boyd Curtis to Santo Domingo. Known as "bright young men" about...
Other Davis immigration proposals: preference under the quota to immigrants who could supply U. S. occupational needs: extension of quota restrictions to North, Central, South American countries...
Pests. "In April the Mediterranean fruit fly . . . worst fruit pest known, was found well established in central Florida. . . . Control operations involved 8,100,000 acres, producing 76% of [Florida's] citrus fruits . . . 580,000 boxes of citrus fruit, 3,400 bushels of vegetables, 7,100 bushels of non-citrus fruit were destroyed. In 1930 $15,500,000 will be needed for quarantine enforcement, inspection, research . . . the object is eradication...
...Central Square--"Side Street", and "Sweetie", featuring Nancy Carroll, Helen Kane, and Jack Oakie...
...with these ideas in mind the film met with such success that Haeseler was encouraged to go on with this type of picture. On the same trip in Africa he had filmed the Nomad Bedouins who live in the Sahara. After the completion of this picture he went to Central Europe where he produced the film. "Mediaeval Moderns", the principal film in the Foundation's exhibition Tuesday...