Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...membership of this local cannot see what the C.I.O. has in any way to offer us. . . . The C.I.O., having been in existence for two years, has as yet not organized itself as a central federation. It has had no convention. It has no constitution and bylaws, and appears to be what John L. Lewis or some other high-up says it is. It appears to be a dictatorship by a top committee which is all against the principles fought for and established by the component organizations of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific Coast...
...coolies meekly unloading Japanese munitions and its Chinese officials blandly obliging, that General Kazuki did not bother to keep Tientsin heavily garrisoned, hurried almost all the Japanese troops he landed directly inland toward Peiping. Suddenly about 2 a. m. Chinese artillery secretly brought close to Tientsin started shelling the central and east railway stations used by the Japanese. Simultaneously Chinese snipers, evidently well organized on a citywide scale, began firing from the rooftops, hurling hand grenades. In the streets some Chinese soldiers attacked the Japanese. Others seized bargeloads of Japanese beer, burst into the offices of the Dairen Steamship...
Roughneck, big-hearted Samuel Zemurray, Managing Director of United Fruit Co. (bananas, ships, wireless, rail-roads), gave $380,000 worth of his company's' stock to found a child guidance clinic in New Orleans, where he made his fortune in bananas, fostered Central American revolutions and still lives. All told, he has given New Orleans' Tulane University approximately $1,000,000 to found a department of Middle American research...
...knight or above the ?5,000-a-year income level who are untouched by insipidity, depravity, or both. This week the far less satiric Sylvia Thompson (The Hounds of Spring) contributed another long, episodic novel depicting some unsavory doings among the best people. Since Recapture the MOON, has a central character who is fundamentally decent, and since it ends happily, its picture of social decay is not so thoroughgoing as Huxley's, but its moral atmosphere is still distinctly gamey...