Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...convention from 1860 to 1920. All the Presidents from Lincoln to Harding knew him well. In 1888, he himself received 99 votes for the nomination, but withdrew in favor of Harrison, who later asked him to be Secretary of State. He declined, having the presidency of the New York Central R. R. to attend to. In 1899 he entered the Senate, but his two terms were chiefly sociable. Politics, with him, was a sideline. Business came first, then speechmaking, then living long...
...Chauncey Mitchell Depew Jr.). He remained board chairman of the New York Central up to his death. A few hours after he died, steelworkers swung the final girder into place atop the pinnacle of his last project, the 36-story New York Central Building behind the Grand Central station, dominating famed Park Avenue...
...remote Tibet. They read of how Wu Pei-fu had journeyed thither from China, traveling by wearisome forced marches until he reached the monastery and was welcomed by its Buddhist brotherhood. Even in so remote a place, men know that Marshal Wu Pei-fu was War Lord of Central China prior to his overthrow by the Nationalist Revolution (TIME...
...bond issue for the Edison company of Milan and a $6,000,000 issue for the Adamello General Electric Co. operating throughout Lombardy. Not thus concentrated in Northern Italy are the operations of Blair & Co. who are financing a whole series of companies in Northern, Central and Southern Italy. Most notable, of course, is their issue for the Hydro-Electric Company of Piedmont, the S. I. P. (Societa Idroelettrica Peidmonte), famed because it is controlled by Il Duce's Finance Minister Count Giuseppe Volpi...
...Mitchell, in addition to his position as Solicitor General, to which he was appointed in 1925 by President Coolidge, is a member of the Central Committee, counselor for the American Red Cross, and a member of the American Bar Association, the Spanish War Veterans, and the American Legion...