Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...postmasterships had been sold and levied upon in the Wilson days of 1917-20. The system, he implied, dated back to Civil War times and was common to both parties. Democrats demurred that the campaign contribution law had been changed since Wilson days and that the Georgia Republican State Central Committee had refined the illegal sale of patronage to the point of card-indexing its customers. Mr. New was requested to produce more information. The investigation continued...
VOLPONE-The Theatre Guild's riotous revision of Ben Jonson's farce, whose central figure is notable for his lecherous rapacity (TIME, April...
...many this appeared as peace without victory. Standard Oil and Dutch Shell face each other in nearly every oil-producing country in the world, in the fields of Mexico and Central America, in Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Persia, the Dutch East Indies, in the U. S. itself.* The Shell Union Corp., American subsidiary of Dutch Shell, has assets listed at $348,129,212, itself produces more oil than the great enemy of its parent company. The war goes on, though quietly. Major battles, with all war correspondents on hand, are perhaps ended...
While electrical engineers, supply men, mechanical and transportation experts conferred at Atlantic City (see p. 31), railroad magnates gathered importantly at the Bankers' Club, Manhattan, for the monthly luncheon of the Eastern Railroad Presidents' Conference. Competition was their theme, the new tariff of the Illinois Central their particular problem...
...rate war loomed as anxious presidents noted that under the joint schedule of the Illinois Central and the Redwood Line, manufacturers could ship steel from Chicago to New Orleans (912 miles) as cheaply as from Buffalo to New York (390 miles). "Unduly preferential," they cried, technically. They explained: Eastern railroads should serve Eastern shippers, benefiting by short rail hauls to the Atlantic, low water rates to the Pacific. Cutthroat reductions by the I.C.R.R. will divert traffic to Chicago, thence to New Orleans, thence by the Redwood Line to the coast...