Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among continents Europe was most favored, by 372 "Acts of God." Other continents and regions: Asia 144 Africa 49 North America 112 Oceania 31 South America 55 Central America...
Thus, parenthood-"the greatest profession on earth"-as sharp critics see it. If these critics had visited the Parents' Exposition at the Grand Central Palace in Manhattan last week, they would have found little to contradict their previous observations. Exhibitions of groceries, toys, corrective literature, propaganda were there aplenty. Parents said: "Don't touch that;" and children clamored for ice cream. Then there arose a tiff between eminent parents; the officials of the Parents' Exposition, at the suggestion of New York Superintendent of Schools William J. O'Shea, refused to allow the American Birth Control League...
...operative Consultation booth, where parents were urged by a sign to "Come in and talk it over." Individual problems were discussed and sound advice given. But, for conciseness, nothing at the exposition equalled the remark which one charming modern mother made as she was leaving the Grand Central Palace: "What do I do with my little boy? Practically nothing. I read to him and he reads to me. I play games with him. When he acts up, I say to him: 'Hey, do you think that's nice...
Last week Leonor Fresnel Loree was 70 years old and last week he sold his threat of a fifth Eastern railroad system for $63,000,000 and the assurance that his Delaware & Hudson would not be obliterated by the New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio or the Van Sweringen group...
...York Central would take the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh, the Wheeling & Lake Erie, and the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, or the Chicago & Alton...