Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop McDonnell is the sixth president the Council has had since it was organized 20 years ago. Two of his predecessors like himself have been Methodists; Dr. Cadman is a Congregationalist, a radio-preacher, a columnist on the New York Herald Tribune, and pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn. Before the convention opened he spoke briefly in Manhattan to the effect that he did not plan to accept $25,000 yearly to preach over the radio and to the effect that too many Protestant dollars are used to build hideous churches...
...church is called Central Church; why, I don't know. As to its architecture-well, two Irishmen were passing by recently and Pat was heard to say to Mike, 'You say that is a church? It looks to the like of me more like a gas-house.' Well, Pat was more right than he knew...
...which the machine was developed, and which is as yet its only practical application. Is in automatic switching equipment. For instance, the central office desires to turn on a light or perform some similar operation in a distant power station where Televox has been installed and no human beings are present. The dispatcher at headquarters telephones the substation. Televox answers, the signal is given. Televox caries out the command, and reports that it has been done...
...Hollywood version of Central Europe in June, 1914, this; no baseless fabrics of cinema walls enclose it; but the perfectly solid foundations of the presidential palace of Bolivia. And during these demonstrations: the Quaker President-elect watches the waves from the battleship carrying him on his tour of friendship; the Pan-American Conference opens with false assurances of cheer in the face of absent Argentina and the two quarrelsome neighbors; the statesmen of Europe meet at Lugano, not even trying to dissimulate the seriousness of their situation...
Never again will he hop off alone, Capt. Patterson said. But he announced plans for a four or five weeks' joyhop over the blue Caribbean, when Lieut. Becker will be at his side. Floyd Gibbons, famed journalist, will be guest. From Cuba to Central America, South America and the close-linked West Indies, he planned to circle the famed buccaneer waters. Last week his new plane, the Liberty, was being tuned up at Mitchel Field, L. I. She is a three-ton yacht of the air, with luxurious cabin, two motors of 520 horsepower each, speed of 140 miles...