Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tokyo cowed Paris? The supplies of munitions moving across French Indo-China into Central China and thence to Generalissimo Chiang were halted on orders from Paris last week. Rumors that Japan had threatened to seize the Chinese island of Hainan and use it as a base to bomb the French-owned Indo-Chinese Yunnan Railway if the supplies were not cut off, were officially denied by the French and Japanese Governments-but within 24 hours President Henry Berenger of the French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee blurted a sensational statement that these rumors were substantially correct. "I am not betraying," fibbed...
Died. Rev. Dr. Frank William Bible, 60, since 1923 executive secretary of the central district of Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; after long illness; in Chicago...
...mining engineer, ran Guggenheim affairs in Mexico for two years. He was elected president of Guaranty Trust Co. in 1921, chairman of the board in 1934. Last week the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced that he had been elected a director, succeeding George W. Davison, chairman of Central Hanover Bank & Trust...
...answers, however, was evidenced the same day when 39 university janitors and maintenance workers went on strike, demanding union recognition, higher pay, shorter hours. Fuming professors dusted their own desks until strikebreakers were brought in. Strikers picketed the university and its football games. Fortnight ago the St. Louis Central Trades and Labor Union placed the university on its ''unfair" list. Teachers Union members, who belong to the American Federation of Labor, continued to walk past the picket lines because their local rules forbid them to strike. But to all A. F. of L. members of the nation last...
...Confucianist view better, but cheerfully admits that he has taken many of his opinions from humbler authorities who include "Mrs. Huang, an amah in my family; a Soochow boatwoman with her profuse use of expletives; a Shanghai street car conductor ... a lion cub in the zoo; a squirrel in Central Park in New York. . . ." But his main guide is himself...