Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago en fete, led by its Mayor, Dever, one of the Illinois Senators, Deneen, and three railway Presidents, Rea of the Pennsylvania; Holden, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Markham of the Illinois Central, celebrated the opening of its new $60,000,000, 1,200,000 square feet, eight-story (potentially 21 story) Union Station-"one of the very largest in the world and certainly the world's most modern and most complete large station in all respects...
Last week, the League of Nations Temporary Commission on Slavery discussed peonage (employment of peons or laborers). The Commission "tended" toward the conclusion that peonage in the Philippine Islands and in some Central American republics "almost" amounts to forced labor and "may" therefore be construed as "partial" slavery...
Said critics: "Had not the U. S. been mixed up in the indictment, the Central American republics would have been denounced roundly. Diplomatic language varies according to the strength of the country to whom it is addressed...
...third will deal with the central problem of both Europe and the Mediterranean-which is Italy, with her growing population, the lack of raw materials and her want of colonies. The fourth will discuss the imperial problems of both France and Great Britain in the Mediterranean...
Count Skrzynski came to the U. S. upon the invitation of the Williamstown Institute of Politics to lecture upon Poland and conditions in Central Europe. But he had, as he himself explained, "a sentimental mission" to the American people. "We still have to discharge," he added, "the debt of gratitude* which we feel we owe the American people for the part played by them in Poland's restoration to independence and for their aid and sympathy...