Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Armistice Day Speech, delivered by Premier Mussolini before details of the plot were allowed to leak out, was in part as follows: "Italy's victory over the Central Empires gave us our present sacred inviolable boundaries. Woe unto anyone who would attempt to violate them!....I believe we are confronted with a long period of peace . . . not with the possibility of peace for centuries. . . . The Italian people must not rest on their laurels . . . must be taught how sublime it is to sacrifice one's self for one's country...
Home from collecting in South and Central America for the Museum of the American Indian, A. Hyatt Verrill of Manhattan related of Indians living inland from Oldbank, Panama, that they employ the Elizabethan expressions "Gadzooks," "forsooth," "marry," "yea," "nay," "thee," "ye." Explanation: in 1680, Buccaneer Batholomew Sharp sailed to Panama with 350 lusties in The Most Blessed Trinity. They looted, killed, burned out the Spaniards, founded Oldbank, where today live many a Sharp, many a Coxon, Hawkins, Ringrose (names of Sharp's lieutenants...
...engineer is incapacitated or heedless, the current proceeds to operate controls, braking, throttling, halting the train. The incoming signals are despatched automatically by the block towers along the line and keep engineers informed of the condition of each block of track as lie enters it. The Michigan Central has already put the radio control device on ten locomotives over a ten-mile stretch between Jackson and Rives, Mich. The Chicago & Northwestern has equipped some 40 locomotives over 150 miles of track between Boone and Council Bluffs, Iowa...
...Reich, in full plenary session, recorded unanimously last week its complete concurrence with the procedure of Herr Stresemann and Dr. Luther in initialing the Locarno treaties (see INTERNATIONAL). Immediately thereafter the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag indicated that no opposition to the treaties need bo feared from the Central or Socialist parties, since Herr Stresemann had declared before it: "The Rhineland treaty contains nothing but renunciation of all aggressive attacks . . . and does not interfere with the self-determination of peoples or with any other kind of peaceful development. . . . The text of the initialed treaties is not subject to alteration...
...last week. Two happenings of major interest: 1) the Nine-Power Customs Conference* assembled at Peking, seat of the present weak Chinese National Government; 2) the great warlord, or "Super-Tuchun," Wu Pei-fu, emerged from an enforced retirement and appeared at Hankow as "Commander-in-Chief of the Central Provinces"-an alliance which he has apparently patched up by intrigue and which he claims leagues about him "14 of China's 18 provinces...