Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposed to prohibition. I was opposed to it because I thought there would be great difficulty in its enforcement, it being more or less like a sumptuary law. Second, I was opposed to it because I thought it too greatly enlarged the power of the central government, already too large; and, third, I was opposed to it because, introduced into national politics, we would never as long as it remained the subject of political discussion settle any other issue clearly and emphatically by the judgment of all the people, because some extremes on both sides would insist on thrusting prohibition...
Exuding goodwill-and perspiration, for it grew hotter & hotter-President-Elect Hoover & party proceeded down the west coast of Central America, making four calls, to South America...
Costa Rica. The last stop in Central America seemed the most impressive. For one thing, Mr. Hoover put on his cutaway and high hat for the first time during the trip. Costa Ricans are ceremonious. Then, there was a 70-mile rail trip, climbing most of the way through tropical mountains, to San Jose, the capital. President Cleto Gonzalez Viquez, a bold gentleman with a scholar's brow, delivered perhaps the most sense-making speech of welcome thus far. He warmly and respectfully welcomed "the illustrious statesman and distinguished organizer," referred to the U.S. as a "colossus," acknowledged Costa...
There was once an engineer named John Luther Jones, they called him Casey because he was born near Cayce, Kentucky. He piloted the Illinois Central's Cannonball...
...developing the last two and major points of his thesis Counselor Cahill is factually illuminating where most analysts would prove vague. He observes that the capture by Imperial Germany of so many industrial towns in Northern France forced the development of an entire new industrial area around such southern, central and western cities as Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Grenoble, Limoges, Tours, Caen, Rouen and even Paris. It is these new and War-born producer areas which Mr. Cahill hails as of paramount significance in the French industrial boom of today...