Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Central Executive Committee (Cabinet) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Russia) caused Zionist hearts to palpitate last week by setting aside a portion of the Ukraine to be known hereafter as the Autonomous Jewish Socialist Soviet Republic...
...more vital and more enduring than any loyalty Americans have ever professed? Our cities and our states are not for celebrations, nor are our industries or our religions, but the memory of a college fills American streets every June with fanatics, who even dress like the Bantu natives of central Africa...
...rightly to head the column "Intolerance" for, as a Christian missionary in China, I shared the expressed amusement of the press that such men as Reisner, Wise and other prominent ministers should manifest this brand of ecclesiastical provincialism regarding the statue of the Gautama in Central Park...
...highly nervous woman, who is bored with her dull husband, is the central figure. She has a lover who deserts. From him she turns to a Negro lawyer. Finally she takes poison. The play was frank, at times lewd, but never sensationally so. It was not the dirt of which the audience disapproved; it was the dullness. Mary Blair, able heroine of many of Eugene O'Neill's best plays, had the lead. Her performance was unaccountably inept. She fled the cast after the opening performance...
...first act was to undertake, for the Association of Railroad Executives, an "educational campaign" to lead the public back to the idea that private owners and not the Government were best fitted to operate the country's railways. The public was an apt pupil. The New York Central Railway was so pleased to get its business back into its own hands that it engaged Mr. Logan to continue the good work, to write its advertising. The General Electric Co., the Anaconda Copper Co., the International Mercantile Marine, the Radio Corp. of America, and many another vast concern speedily sought...